Marjorie Wills

Marjorie Ellen Moody Wills -Passed away in her home in Mound City, KS on March 5, 2012, after a 3 year battle with Congestive Heart Failure and Kidney Failure. Her daughter, Paula and her good friends Christy and Tammy were by her side providing love and comfort at the end of her time with us. Marg was born in Pleasanton, Kansas on March 29, 1933. She was the 6th of 8 children born to Robert R. Moody and Edna May Evans Moody of Mound City, Kansas. She married Tex H. Wills on November 17, 1950 and shared 57 years of marriage with him before he passed away on May 22, 2008. She leaves behind three daughters and and their husbands. Lynnda Jo & Ron Blitzer of Montecito, CA, Cynndy Lee & George Sillman of Redondo Beach, CA and Paula Renee & Mike Griffitts of Westchester, CA., her Grandchildren, Matthew Evans Blitzer, Katie Troy (Sillman) Washington and Michelle Renee Griffitts, her first Great Grandchild due to be born at the end of March, Jaxon Tex Washington and 6 of her siblings, Leota Hoover (Mound City, KS), Lora Lee Epstein (Garden Grove, CA), Alice Vincent (Apple Valley, CA), Arvella Umphenour (Sun City West, AZ), Marilyn Miller (Anaheim, CA) and Winnie Moore (Doliphan, MO). Marg had many jobs over the years. She was a switchboard operator, a seamstress, an assembly worker, an emergency room aid, an EKG Technician, an EEG Technician a mentor and her most important job, Mom. Mom loved music and could sing a harmony to anything in a instant. In her early years she played Hawaiian guitar with some popular big bands. There was always music in the house and she would sing and dance with us all over the place. She loved Lou Rauls, Glen Campbell, LuLu and Olivia Newton John. But she would also listen to the stuff we would play on the stereo and never complain. She loved to read and we could often find her snuggled up under a blanket with a good book. She was so talented and creative. When we needed a new dress for a dance or the newest fashions for school, she would whip them up in a minute on her sewing machine or knit it up like no body's business. She loved to decorate and we would often come home to find the furniture moved or a room re-done with new paint, curtains, bedding...the works. She also loved to have beautiful flowers in her garden and was so proud when everything there was in bloom. Marg was a devoted, understanding and forgiving Mother, Daughter, Wife, Sister and Friend. She was kind and sweet to everyone she knew and had the most warm and loving heart. She was the most unselfish person you could ever know. Her motto was to never hurt anybody's feelings if you could help it. She told us to accept every person as an individual and make up our own minds about who our friends would be, regardless of their popularity, their social status, their race or their religion. When we were kids, our home was always warm and inviting and many of our friends remember that we were always home and the door was always open to them. In fact some of our friends would come to our house to visit with our mom even if we kids weren't even home. She was always proud of her children and their accomplishments. She taught us about trust by trusting us. She taught us how to be independent by letting us make our own mistakes and always being there to catch us when we fell. She taught us how to love by loving us. And by her example, we three girls learned how to be loving mothers to our own children. There is no greater gift a mother could have given us than having been OUR mom. Paula summed it up perfectly when she said "She is the sweetest Mommy on Earth! We are lucky to have been born to this woman". Our family will be forever grateful to Tammy McClure, Christy Carr and their families for the wonderful and loving care they gave to our mom for these past few years. Without them mom would have never been able to attend the marriage of her first Granddaughter, be proud of her second Granddaughter's acceptance and accomplishments in her goal for a Master's Degree, hear the amazing compositions of her Grandson's budding musical career or know that she has a Great Grandson on the way. A graveside will be at 11:00 AM Thursday March 8, 2012 at the Fort Scott National Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 PM Wednesday March 7, 2012 at the Schneider Funeral Home Mound City Chapel. Family suggests contributions to the Marjorie Wills Memorial Fund in C/O Schneider Funeral Home P.O. Box J Mound City, Kansas 66056. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.schneiderfunerals.com. Arrangements: Schneider Funeral Home Mound City Chapel.