Funeral services will be held Tuesday, December 24 at 10 a.m. at the Logan Methodist Church for Doyne Maxine Willard, who passed away December 21 at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, NE.

Rev. Michael Owens will officiate at the service. Bearers will be Gary Dickinson, Byron White, Searle White, Joe Grote, Rick Craft and Merle Sass. Honorary bearers are Rob Dickinson, Ron Greenwood, Rex Fetter, Darrell Fahrenkrog, Jack McMillan, and LaVerne Wertz. Interment will be Harris Grove Cemetery after a short interment service at the Harris Grove Chapel.

Doyne was born August 29, 1932 to Charles Emmitt and Minnie Peters Petit. She graduated from Logan High School in 1950. September 24, 1950 she married Dwight Willard. They spent most of their married lives on a farm near Logan where they raised three sons. Doyne worked for Westmont Care Center for over 20 years. She was active in her church and community activities including the Merry Homemakers Club and Eastern Star.

Survivors include her husband, Dwight, of Logan; sons, Craig and wife Pat of Rockville, MD, Bob and wife Rose of Logan, and Jim and wife Shelly of Logan; nine grandchildren; four brothers, Ralph of Mesa, AZ, Donald, Dale and Robert all of Logan; one sister, Delores Myers of Logan; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Roger, Kenneth and Leonard; and two sisters, Bernice Merchant and Norma Stoddard.

Schumacher Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Memorials may be given to the Logan United Methodist Church, the Harris Grove Memorial Chapel, Heart Foundation or Diabetes Foundation.

Funeral Leaflet:

In Memory of Doyne M. Willard

Date of Birth: August 29, 1932, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Date of Death: December 21, 1996 Omaha, Nebraska.

Place and time of services: United Methodist Church, Logan, Iowa Tuesday, December 24, 1996 10am

Officiating Clergy: Rev. Michael Owens

Final Resting Place: Harris Grove Cemetery, Logan, Iowa

Congregational Singing; “Joy To The World”

Music: “Wind Beneath My Wings”; Soloist Dave Dickinson; Organist Barb Sherer

Honorary Pallbearers: Rob Dickinson, Ron Greenwood, Rex Fetter, Darrell Fahrenkrog, Jack McMillan, and LaVerne Wertz.

Pallbearers: Gary Dickinson, Byron White, Searle White, Joe Grote, Rick Craft and Merle Sass.

Lunch will be served at the church following the committal service.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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