{"id":26268,"date":"2014-02-12T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=26268"},"modified":"2014-02-12T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:18:50","slug":"obituary-willis-haney-qualls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/obituary-willis-haney-qualls\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Willis Haney Qualls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Obituary: Willis Haney Qualls<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWillis Haney Qualls, 77, &nbsp;of San Antonio &nbsp;ascended home on Tuesday, February 11,&nbsp;2014. &nbsp;He was born in Ralls, Texas to Chester Coleman and Nettie Green Willis&nbsp;Qualls on September 22, 1936. &nbsp; He played on Varsity football team as tight end&nbsp;at Texas School for the Deaf. &nbsp;He graduated from TSD 1956. &nbsp;He married Rose&nbsp;Sames in 1957. &nbsp;Willis was an avid bowler player. &nbsp;He played with Deaf bowling&nbsp;and several hearing bowling leagues for over 40 years in Ft. Worth, Texas. &nbsp; He&nbsp;also played on Tandy Leather Company league as he was employed there for over 38&nbsp;years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWillis was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Lonnie Dale and Chester&nbsp;Weldon Qualls, his former wife Rose Sames Wade. &nbsp; Those he left behind surviving&nbsp;him are: &nbsp;daughter, Darlene Rose Qualls-Ballard, granddaughters, Samantha&nbsp;Josephine and Kristina Luna Qualls Ballard, his three great-grandsons Thomas&nbsp;Cash, &nbsp;Milo Armand and Jayson Coleman. &nbsp;Fourth great-grandson is on his way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDaughter requests in lieu of flowers, donations in his memory are to be made to&nbsp;Rea and Barbara Hinrichs Scholarship Fund in care of San Antonio College, 1300&nbsp;San Pedro, NTC 114, San Antonio, TX 78212. &nbsp;IT is to assist American Sign&nbsp;Language\/ Deaf Support Specialist students to achieve their degree and in their&nbsp;future work in various Deaf communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituary: Willis Haney Qualls Willis Haney Qualls, 77, &nbsp;of San Antonio &nbsp;ascended home on Tuesday, February 11,&nbsp;2014. &nbsp;He was born in Ralls, Texas to Chester Coleman and Nettie Green Willis&nbsp;Qualls on September 22, 1936. &nbsp; He played on Varsity football&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/obituary-willis-haney-qualls\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,831,502,20844,20846,20847,22,20845,17,604,80,20843],"class_list":["post-26268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-bowling","tag-football","tag-obituary","tag-qualls","tag-ralls","tag-rea-and-barbara-hinrichs-scholarship-fund","tag-san-antonio","tag-tandy-leather-companty","tag-texas","tag-texas-school-for-the-deaf","tag-tsd","tag-willis-haney-qualls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-6PG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13088,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/obituary-rose-wade\/","url_meta":{"origin":26268,"position":0},"title":"Obituary: Rose Wade","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"February 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My beloved mother, Rose Wade DATE: Feburary 5, 2011 TIME: 3pm to 5 pm ADDRESS: Mission Funeral Home South 1st street Austin, Texas Want to let Deaf community know that my beloved mother, Addie Rose Wade, has gone home to heaven to be with theh Lord and her parents. 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