Obituary of Willie Sullivan

Services for Willie Mae Sullivan, 91, New London, will be at 11:00 am, Monday, May 20, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Buddy Shelton officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Overton. Mrs. Sullivan died Thursday, May 16, 2013 in Henderson. She was born October 15, 1921 in Ellis County to the late Joseph S. and Mattie Virginia Henry Rogers. She was a longtime resident of New London and she married Curtis Sullivan. She was a homemaker and a loving mother and grandmother.  Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis Sullivan, a daughter, Margie Inman and a son, Curtis Sullivan, granddaughter, Virginia Hamlet, four brothers, Fred Rogers, Joe Rogers, Gilmer Rogers, and Charley Rogers, and a sister, Wanda Rogers. Survivors include a son, Joseph Thomas Sullivan, New London; a daughter and son-in-law, Earlene and Billy Higginbotham, Arp;  a brother, Tommy Eugene Rogers, De Berry; numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews.