A graveside service for Ledo Lea, 87, of Marshall, Texas will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 2, 2022, at Yates Cemetery in Scottsville, Texas. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at Downs Funeral Home.

Ledo Lea was born on May 6, 1935, in Paducah, Texas and passed away on May 30, 2022, in Marshall, Texas.

She was a dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in her younger years. She loved nature, rock collecting and dancing. She enjoyed playing the piano and would often play at Church. Most of all she loved being with family and friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents, James and Mary Lea; first husband, Joel Sheffield; second husband, Robert "Bob" Willis; third husband, Perry Floyd Whitfield; 3 grandchildren and one stepson, Danny Whitfield.

She is survived by her children, Ronald Lea Willis, Trina Lynn Thomas, David Bradley Willis, Charles Harvey Willis and Angela Jane Hooten; step-sons, Joe Willis and Perry Wayne Whitfield; grandchildren, John Willis, Amanda Willis, Michael Thomas, Audrey Willis, Dalton Willis, Bobby Willis, Carli Whitfield, Zachariah Hooten, Elijah Hooten, Andrea Hendryx, Christi Whitfield and Bubba Whitfield along with several great grandchildren and numerous other family and friends.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made in her honor to the Longview Type One Diabetes Foundation at longviewtypeone.org.