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CHARLES WILLIS
In Memory Of
C. EDWARD WILLIS
Cedar Rapids
Please join families for a Celebration of Life honoring Ed Willis from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 23, at Casa Las Glorias, 2245 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE.
Ed Willis, 73, formerly of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died
Dec. 14, 2014, at St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington, Ky.
He was born Oct. 5, 1941, the son of the late Harold and Maxine Willis. Ed graduated from Washington High School in 1960. In December 1967, he was united in marriage to Sue Ellen Kopecky.
Survivors are his two daughters, Darcy (Stephen) Smith and Stacie (Doug) Layne; six grandchildren, all from Kentucky; one brother, Dean (Rachel) Willis; and two sisters, Pam (Andy) Soteco and Shelley (Paul) Greene.
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