Mrs. Willie Mae Page

PAGE, Mrs. Willie Mae - age 85, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at her residence. Family hour 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 4, 2014 from the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd. with funeral service commencing at 11 a.m. Rev. Terry Davis presiding, Pastor Jacob Hawkins eulogist. Interment Sunset Hills Association, G-4413 Flushing Rd. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the funeral home 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Page will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home and may be viewed from 2 p.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Willie Mae Page was born April 5, 1929 in East St. Louis, Missouri to John Henry Young and Mariah Randle Jefferson. Her early years were spent in Starksville, MS. She came to Flint, MI at age seven. Mrs. Page attended Fairview Elementary School, Lowell Junior High and Northern High School. She married Adolphus Bivins and to that union two sons were born—Glenn Martin Bivins and Arthur Douglas Bivins. She later married Corley Page and was a loving wife and mother. While in Flint, she worked 11 years for Ternstedt, a Division of General Motors Corporation. She relocated from Flint to Rock Island, Illinois in 1973, where she worked for John Deere for approximately 20 years until she retired. She accepted Christ at an early age at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church under the Pastorage of Rev L. C. White. After moving to Rock Island, IL she united with First Paradise Baptist Church and served faithfully as Sunday School Superintendent, a youth worker, and a soloist in the Choir. She was a Christian woman who encouraged everyone she met to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour and to become one of His disciples. She was truly serious about her evangelistic work. Her hobbies were gardening, collecting caps, reading the Bible as an Evangelist and caring for her beloved dogs and cats. She was a dignified, well-mannered and classy lady at all times, no matter when you saw her. She resided in Rock Island for 41 years until Mid-May of 2014 when she moved back to Flint to be close to her two sons due to her illness, and went on home to Heaven on Wednesday morning, May 28, 2014. Mrs. Willie Mae Page leaves to cherish her memory, two sons, Glenn (June) Bivins of Lansing, MI and Arthur Douglas Bivins of Flint; special daughter, Barbara G. Wilson and her son Troy Griffith; grandson, Craig Joseph Bivins; great-grandson, Craig (Wendy) Bivins, Jr.; great-granddaughter, Tiffany Bivins; great-great-granddaughter, Elaine Simone Bivins, all of Chicago, IL; godson, John Gottilla; of Rock Island, IL; nieces, Mona (Leonard) James and Frieda Urquhart of Grand Blanc, MI; nephew, Duane (Australia) Urquhart of Grand Blanc, MI; cousin, John Randle of Dayton, OH; a host of friends including Attorney Arthur Winstein, Ida Braggs, B.J. Foster, Marjorie Braggs, Annie Gooden, Pastor David McAdams, and the First Paradise Baptist Church family, Erin of the Nurses Station at Trinity West Hospital, Dr. David Gannon, all of Rock Island, IL, Annette Davis of Minneapolis, MN, Vicky of Heartland Hospice Arnitha Burke, Mr. Abraham Felix, Lillian Henry, Pastor Jacob Hawkins and New Zion Church family, all of Flint. Mrs. Page was preceded in death by her mother, Mrs. Mariah Jefferson; father, John Henry Young and sister, Johnnie Urquhart.

Mrs. Willie Mae Page

April 5, 1929 - May 28, 2014