Obituary of Josephine Elizabeth Willyard
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Josephine "Jo" Elizabeth Willyard
November 30, 1940 - April 29, 2010
Private family services for Josephine “Jo” Willyard, 69, will be held at a later date. She was born in Blackford County, Indiana to Howard Francis McClish and Fern Garnet (Grow) McClish on November 30, 1940 and passed away on April 29, 2010 at her residence in Lovington. Services are being arranged by Kirby-Smith-Rogers Funeral Home.
Jo was raised in Indiana and New Mexico and she married Jack Willyard in Carlsbad, NM on February 13, 1960. They raised two sons and Jo was the epitome of a great wife, mom and grandmother. She enjoyed gardening, sewing and cooking and especially liked her pets.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Surviving her are her husband, Jack of the home, two sons; Howard Franklin and wife Christian Willyard of Lovington and Roger Wayne Willyard of Lovington; two brothers: John McClish of Texas and James McClish of Tatum, NM; two sisters: Catherine and husband Dan Robbins of Montpellier, Indiana and Janice and husband Dick Brown of Bluffton, Indiana; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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