Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Willard E. Pickens

Feb. 10, 1923 - March 1, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 3/2/1994

MISHAWAKA - Willard E. Pickens, 71, of 307 W. Lawrence St., died at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday in South Haven (Mich.) Hospital of natural causes. Mr. Pickens retired in 1985 from Uniroyal Plastics Co. after 42 years of service. He was born Feb. 10, 1923, in Florence, Ala., and lived in Mishawaka since 1944, coming from Florence.

 

On Dec. 7, 1957, in Mishawaka, he married Nancy R. Green. She survives, with four daughters, Gladys Jackson, Barbara Fager, and Rita Burnett, all of Mishawaka, and Martha Search of South Bend; three sons, Earl and Ernest, both of Mishawaka, and Dannie of Elkhart; 20 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a brother, Arb of Tishimingo, Miss.

 

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main St. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.