‘Willa M. Spinks LAYTON - Our precious and beautiful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt, was suddenly called home to. our Lord on Wednesday, March 4, 2009. -Mom was born on June 30, 1929 to Guy and Beatrice (Bates) Payne in Leavenworth, Kansas. ~At an early age she went to live and go to school at Holy Epiphany School in Leavendence. "At age 15 she came to Utah to'join her dad who was working for the railroad. She also met. and married our dad, James E. Spinks. Together they raised their seven children. » Mom worked very hard all her life. She retired from Hill AFB after 25 plus years in 1993. Retirement did not slow mom down. For 10 years she was an extra on the television series Touched by An Angel. She was featured as a main character in one episode as "Lola" where she played an elderly lady in a wheelchair. Other shows you could see mom in were: | Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, In- dependence Day, the series Everwood and Promise Land and was a singing Christmas orna- ment in the movie Coming of Age. She is in a movie Waiting for Forever with her son Ed and ins a commercial this past November for a Foundation For a Better Life. To her family she ‘ae always a STAR. fe ie ga oe- dfth.. This.school was operated... by. the Oblate Sisters of Provi-.