With heartfelt sympathy we announce the death of Mr. Willie Frank Willis who passed on Friday September 3, 2010. Mr. Willis was born on August 4, 1946 in Milledgeville, Ga. to the parentage of the late Mr.Solomon Benjamin Willis,ll and Mrs. Vandine Jones - Alford Willis. At the age of five before public school Mr. Willis began taking piano under the tutelage of the late Mrs. Geneva Wright. He graduated from Boddie High School in Milledgeville in 1965.Mr willis was educated at then Savannah State College and at then Georgia College. Mr. Willis' church employment began in August,1957 as interim Minister of Music at Flagg Chapel Baptist Church. He served as Minister of Music at Flagg Chapel until October 1988 serving for 31 years. Afterwards he served as as Organist and Choirmaster at Hope Lutheran Church and Minister of Music at Greater Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Willis was employed as the first African - American Music Therapist at Central State Hospital in 1966 under the late Herbert P. Goldsmith. Mr. Willis was the youngest of five siblings with two deceased brothers; Charles Thomas, the elder son died died in 1971, and James Edward, the third sibling in this lineage died in 1942. He has two sisters, Mary Willis Neely of Milledgeville, and Mrs. Shirley Willis Jones of Macon. He will be missed by a host of other family members and friends.