The Ellis County Press: John Willard Belcher John Willard Belcher ================================================================================ Editor on 09/29/2011 12:31:00 April 9, 1940 – Sept. 22, 2011 DESOTO – Memorial services for John Willard Belcher, 71, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Palmer Assembly of God Church. He passed away Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 in DeSoto. He was a welder by trade and worked at Lane in Arlington. He is survived by his wife Bessie Belcher; daughters Debra Rhodes and husband Allen, Donna Rhodes and husband Doug, Dianna Green and husband Clifton, Dana Urias, Deborah Rodgers and husband Philip and Delores Maloney; sons John Willard Belcher Jr. and Mathew Adam Ezra Watson Belcher; brothers Jimmy Belcher, Bobby Fox and Danny Crislip; sister Glenda Mae Newton; 22 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Arrangements are under the direction of Waxahachie Funeral Home.