Archived Site: Mary Pearl Willis Foundation

Information Concerning this Archived Site

Source: http://www.mpwfoundation.org/ (Inactive)

This is the archive of the website for the Mary Pearl Willis Foundation, named after a member of Peoples Temple who died in Jonestown in 1978. Lela Howard, the niece of Ms. Willis, established the site in 2007 initially to pay tribute to her aunt and to document the efforts to identify the location of Ms. Willis' unmarked grave in a Louisiana graveyard. After a successful campaign to rebury her aunt, Ms. Howard then transformed the foundation into a source of financial assistance to low income families so that "unmarked graves are no longer an option." The foundation became inactive in 2009.

In the interest of preserving the information from the Mary Pearl Willis Foundation site for future generations of Jonestown scholars and researchers, the managers of this site obtained permission from Ms. Howard to archive this work in its entirety.

The Mary Pearl Willis Foundation

5650 Windsor Way
Suite 307
Culver City, CA 90230
ph: (310) 216-0160

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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.”

5650 Windsor Way
Suite 307
Culver City , CA 90230
ph: (310) 216-0160