Obit: Wills, Douglas A. (1952 - 1996)

 
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Surnames: Wills, Albert, Penker, Luther, Blum, Mellenthin

----Source: Marshfield News Herald, Marshfield, Wood Co., WI, Fri., 17 May 1996

Wills, Douglas A. (31 May 1952 - 8 May 1996)

Douglas A. Wills, 43, New York, died at 5 a.m. May 8, 1996, at Terence Cardinal Cook Health Care Center in New York.

Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Sun. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Marshfield. The Rev. Gary Albert will officiate. Music will be provided by Jolene Albert, organist for Cindy Pecker, soloist, and congregational singing. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

The family will receive friends and relatives following the services. Hansen Funeral Home assisted the family with the arrangements.

Mr. Wills was born May 31, 1952, in Marshfield, to Kenneth O. and Elizabeth Luther Wills. He attended Immanuel Lutheran School, was a 1970 graduate of Marshfield Senior High School, and a graduate of UW-Stout in Menomonie. He then attended the University of London in London, England.

Following his education in England, he returned to the United States and was employed in Minneapolis until 1981, when he moved to New York City. He was in restaurant management with the El Rio Grande Restaurant in New York at the time of his death.

He was affiliated with St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in New York and was a former member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Marshfield.

He is survived by his mother, Elizabeth Wills, of Marshfield; sister and brother-in-law, Patricia and Dean Blum of Tijeras, N.M.; paternal grandmother, Martha Wills of Marshfield; nephew, James Blum of Albuquerque, N.M.; godmother Mary Mellenthin of Marshfield, aunts, uncles, cousins and special friends.

He was predeceased by his father.

Memorials may be designated in his name to Immanuel Lutheran Church and School of for medical research.