Bill Broce

Services for Billy “Bill” Broce, 86, who died Thursday at St. Luke Living Center in Marion, will be 2 p.m. today at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church, Hillsboro.

Pastor Tom Byford will officiate. Relatives will receive friends at 1 p.m. today at the church. Burial will be in Gnadenau Cemetery.

Born May 26, 1938, in Anthony to Harold and Ruth (Osborn) Broce, he married Dorothy Jackson on Nov. 25, 1959, in Winfield,

She survives in Lost Springs. Other survivors include son Mike Broce of Delia, daughter Michele Mettner, brother Keith Broce of Arkansas City, and five grandchildren

Sisters Diana and Linda Broce preceded him in death.

Memorials have been established with Gideons International, Parkview Church, and the Bill Broce scholarship fund at Centre High School.