COAL CITY, Ill. — Mr. Arden E. Wills, 70, of Coal City, Ill., passed away with his loving family at his side Wednesday evening, Jan. 2, 2013, at Morris Hospital.

Visitation and video tribute will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, at Reeves Funeral Home, 75 North Broadway (one block north of Illinois 113), Coal City. Arden will then lie in state at The First United Methodist Church, 6805 East McArdle Road, Coal City, on Monday, Jan. 7, from 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 10 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Logsdon will officiate. Burial will follow in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Braidwood.

Born Aug. 3, 1942, in Joliet, Ill., Arden was a son of the late Arden and Ellen Farmer-Wills. He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse at Sulphur Springs Grade School, where he was the only eighth-grade student. Arden then graduated from Coal City High School and continued his education at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a B.S., M.S. and C.A.S.