Michael J. WILLING

CAMP POINT, Ill. -- Michael J. Willing, 63, of Camp Point, died on Monday (March 7, 2011) in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.

He was born March 5, 1948, in Quincy, a son of Marvin and Catherine Dunker Willing. He married Barb Emery on Oct. 17, 1970, in Quincy. She survives.

Mr. Willing worked for Quincy Soybean/ADM for 32 years. He later worked at Furrows.

Mr. Willing served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He greatly enjoyed hunting and woodworking.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Greg Willing and his wife, Brandi, of Springfield; a grandson who will be born in April; two sisters, Peggy Gower and her husband, Jerry, and Kathy Willing; a sister-in-law, Norma McKenzie; and brothers-in-law, George Richard Emery and his wife, Norma Jean, and Dewey Walker.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and two sisters-in-law, Grace Walker and Hazel McColez along with her husband, Terrell.

SERVICES: 1 p.m. Saturday in the Duker and Haugh Funeral Home in Quincy by the Rev. Wanda Seydel. Interment in the Mendon Cemetery with military rites conducted by the Bear Creek American Legion Post No. 823.

VISITATION: 4 to 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

MEMORIALS: Quincy Humane Society, the Heart Association or the Diabetes Association.

ARRANGEMENTS: Duker and Haugh Funeral Home, Quincy.

Condolences may be expressed online at www.whig.com.