WILLIE MAE SANDERS (PARKS)

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DAVENPORT - Services for Willie Mae Sanders, 70, of 1829 W. 58th St., will be 1 p.m. Friday at Progressive Baptist Church, Davenport. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport.

Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the church.

Mrs.Sanders died Sunday at St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport.

Nicholson Funeral Home, Rock Island, is in charge of arrangements.

She was employed as a cook and dietitian at the Clayton House, Davenport.

Willie Parks married Joe Sanders in 1946 in Louisville, Miss. She was a member of Mount Olive Church of God in Christ, Davenport, for more than 17 years, a mother of the church, and a former member of the usher board.

Memorials may be made to the family.

Survivors include her daughters, Lela Harrington, Eliza-beth Babers, Ruby Faye Sanders, Georgia Virginia Sanders, Annie Reed, and Michelle Sanders, all of Davenport; Mary Sanders, Rock Island; Edna Northlet, Austin, Texas; and Willie Jean Daniels, of Hawaii; sons, Lavell Sanders, Davenport; and Roosevelt Sanders and Ruffus "J.C." Friday, both of Louisville, Miss.; 60 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; a brother, James Parks, Gary, Ind.; and an uncle, Walter Hickman, Louisville.

She was preceded in death by sons, Doug Parks in 1989, and Joe Lee Sanders and Joe Sanders Jr.

Quad City Times, December 15, 1993