ENFIELD - Arnette VanDyke Willey, age 97, passed away July 21, 2023. Born in Halifax County on January 17, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Virgil VanDyke and Pearl Outland VanDyke. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, R.G. Willey, Jr., and her son, Steven Michael Willey.

Arnette is survived by her two sons, Ralph Gibbon Willey, III. and his wife, Lottie of Rocky Mount and Carl Malcolm Willey and his wife, Carol of Nashville; three grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home & Cremation Services with Rev. Keith Griffin officiating. Burial will follow the service at Willey Family Cemetery, 4690 Justice Branch Road, Enfield. Visitation with the family will be from 10-11 a.m. prior to the service in the Atrium of Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made in Arnette's memory to Nash UNC Hospice & Palliative Care, 2460 Curtis Ellis Dr, Rocky Mount, NC 27804 or Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, 600 College Street, Oxford, NC 27565.