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Harris also said he had spoken Tuesday to a woman in Atlanta who attended Willis’ funeral and that she
had also confirmed the location.

Monroe Public Works Director Tom Janway said the problem with locating Willis’ grave stemmed from
the fact that the city kept no plot records at the cemetery before the early 1980s. Although graves before
1980 are difficult to find, gravesites of people buried after that time are documented on a plot map
.
“We have good records from the early 1980s forward,” Janway said. “After the early 1980s, we can track
the graves and won’t have similar problems.”