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Willa D. Schwob

Willa Dene Schwob, 80, of rural Marion, IN, died Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, at 1:24 p.m. at Heritage Pointe in Warren, IN.

Mrs. Schwob worked for the Appliance Factory/Essex in Van Buren for 20 years and was employed by the United Methodist Memorial Home/Heritage Pointe for 19 years in the housekeeping department. She attended the First Church of the Nazarene in Marion.
 
She was born Oct. 3, 1936, in Winston-Salem, NC, to Dorman W. and Mary Madge Taylor Hudson.  She married Dale Schwob on Feb. 12, 1956, in Van Buren  at the Nazarene Church.  Her husband survives.

Additional survivors are a daughter, Pam (Kenny) Brown, of Warren; three sisters, Kathron Minnich, of Warren and Imogene (Harold) Williams and Carolyn (Fred) Solmer, both of Fort Wayne; two grandchildren, Heath Brown and Gretchen Brown, both of Warren; and two great-grandchildren.
 
Calling is Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Glancy-H. Brown & Son Funeral Home, 203 N. Matilda St., Warren. A funeral service will be held Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home, with viewing to be held30 minutes prior the service.  Rev. Mick Veach and Rev. Greg Clark  will officiate.  Interment will follow in the Marion National Cemetery in Marion at 1 p.m.

Memorials are to the First Church of the Nazarene, 700 W. Kem Rd. Marion, Indiana 46952; Cancer Services of Grant County, 305 S. Norton Ave., Marion, IN 46952; or Family Life Care, 108 S. Jefferson St., Berne, IN 46711.

Online condolences may be made at glancyfuneralhomes.com.