WILLIE JAMES WOOTEN, JR (AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN TO FRIENDS AS "WoO" WAS BORN December 26. 1957 TO WILLIE JAMES WOOTEN. SR AND ALMA WALTO IN THOMASTON. ALABAMA.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS: BONUS PARENT -ARMSTEAD

DIGGS.

WILLIE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN MURANGO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THOMASTON. ALABAMA. HE MOVEd TO PoRT HURON. MICHIGAN WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 1976 FROM PORT HURON HIGH SCHOOL. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL ENLISTED IN THE UnitEd States army and SeRVed FoR THREE YEARS

WILLIE ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EaRLY AGE AND LOVED GOD. UPON MOVING CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS. WILLIE UNITED WITH MACEDONIA CHURCh OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST .

WILLIE MARRIED GOLDIE U. KELLEY fEBrUARY 17. 1984. TO THIS UNION TWO CHIT DREN WERF BORN HE WAS AT SO "DADDY? TO TWO BONUS CHILDREN.

WiLLIE LOVEd To fiSh. LovEd All kiNdS oF ANiMALS. ESPECIALLY HORSES BUT HIS GREATEST JOY AND ENTERTAINMENT WAS HIS GRANDCHILDREN WHC AFFECTIONATELY CALLED HIM "PAW PAW".

HE WORKED FOR BEN TAUB HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON. TEXAS AS A SUPERVISOR C MAINTENANCE. MOVING TO CORPUS CHRISTI HE WORKED FOR BAY CONSTRUCTION. HE WORKED AS A SCRAP METALIST UNTIL HIS DEATH

HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY: ON, MARSHALL WOOTEN. CORPUS CHRISTI AND DAUGHTERS. MELANIE WOOTEN AND LONDON BELL OF CORPUS CHRISTI: TWO SISTERS: DR. WILMA WOOTEN OF SAN DIEGO. CALIFORNIA AND JENNIFER DIGGS DAVIS OF VIRGINIA; BONUS CHILDREN, JAMES WALLACE KELLEY OF CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS: AND DELANA WEBSTER OF HOUSTON. TEXAS; 10 GRANDCHILDREN . 7 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND 2 LOVING NEPHEWS - KENDAL AND KALEB: HIS "BEST Friend GOLDIE WOOTEN.

THE FAMILY WoULD LiKE To ThANK ALL MeMberS OF THE MEDICAL TEAM AT SPOHN SHORELINE ICU3 FOR THE CARE PROVIDED DURING HIS ILLNESS .

Memorial Service Pending.