Geraldine Melder Willis

Geraldine Melder Willis

Funeral services for Geraldine Melder Willis will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, June 27, 2014, in the White Oaks Memorial Chapel at Oakdale with the Reverend Jerry Johnson and Reverend Tony Robinson officiating. Committal service will follow in the Oak Hill Cemetery of Oakdale under the guidance of White Oaks Funeral Home, Oakdale.

Mrs. Willis, 81, of Oakdale, entered eternal rest on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 in Pine Prairie, surrounded by her family and friends. She was born on April 28, 1933 in Glenmora to the union of Croker Melder and Elma Butter Melder. She was a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church and a graduate of the Glenmora High School class of 1951. Geraldine was a former school bus driver and retired from the Allen Parish School Board. She also worked many years at the J. W. Strother & Sons Meat Market. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Harry Grant Willis; her parents; sister, Patty Melder Britt.

She leaves behind to cherish her memories, two sons, Grant Willis and wife Nancy of Oakdale and Jerry Willis, wife Carol of Oakdale, two daughters, Laurie Willis Reed, husband Scott of Pine Prairie and Saundra Willis of Oakdale; one brother, Felix Melder, wife Elaine of Glenmora; one sister, Bethel Melder Bueche of Bueche; nine grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren; one lifelong friend, Elaine Baskett of Glenmora; and a host of family and friends.

Pallbearers to serve will be Steven Willis, Joey Willis, Andrew Willis, Jacob Hebert, Jeremy Bailey, Andy Strother, Bob Melder, and Tony Gunter.

Visitation will begin Thursday, June 26, 2014, in the White Oaks Chapel at Oakdale from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m., then on Friday, June 27, 2014 from 8 a.m. until service time in the chapel.