of Saline County, AR

January 15, 1932 - January 9, 2018

Cleta Willis Gullion of Saline County, AR passed on to her new home on January 9, 2018. She was just shy of 86 years old.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Sherdie Piper Willis and Ita Huddleston Willis of Hamlin, TX; her husband, Melvin Douglas Gullion; her three sisters, Edna Gaynell Willis Cooper, Alta Orene Willis Brown, and Shirley Ann Willis Suarez, and her grandson, Blake Douglas Gullion.

She is survived by her three children, O Douglas Gullion and daughter-in-law Kathy Sullivan of Benton, Nancy Gullion Morris Metrailer and son-in-law Richard of Baton Rouge, LA, Bruce Gullion and daughter-in-law Becky of Umatilla, FL; three grandchildren, Melissa Delaney Gullion McNeil, Zachary Alan Morris, and Hadassah Metrailer, and five great grandchildren, Kairi Faith Gullion, Hunter Eugene Gullion, Zechariah Alan Morris, Ethan Bryan Morris, and Rowen Blakely McNeil.

Cleta was born January 15, 1932 in Fisher County, TX. She graduated from Hamlin high in 1950. She was a member of Women's Army Corps for three years after high school and met and married Melvin Douglas Gullion in July, 1953. After her husband's retirement from the Air Force they settled in Saline County, halfway between her home state and his Kentucky. Cleta worked for the Benton Police Department as their first meter maid. She then had a career with the US Post Office and retired in 1992 as postmaster of Lonsdale, AR.

Graveside service will be at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, January 13th at Ten Mile Cemetery off Highway 70 at 17511 Church Rd. near Lonsdale, AR.

Visitation will be held Friday, January 12th from 6 to 8 PM at Roller-Ballard Funeral Home of Benton (501) 315-4047.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her name to Help Heal Veterans National Processing Center, P.O. Box 98088, Washington, DC 20090 or make a book donation in her name to your favorite library.

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