She attended the Reading School District and later moved to Baltimore Maryland in 1976 where she was a private duty nurse for 25 years. During this time she met and married Otto Willingham.
She leaves to cherish her memory, her sister Marian Diggs Best of Rockingham North Carolina, her loving daughter Kimberly Morrison-Nelson wife of Thomas Nelson Jr. of Reading, PA., 2 grandchildren; Ston Nelson, Sr., and Lorna Nelson and her fiancé, Carlos Olan, 5 great grandchildren; Ston Nelson, Jr., Kameron Nelson, Alexis Nelson, Zayden Nelson, Ezra Nelson, special friends and cousins, Nonie and Rosie Singleton and Family, as well as a host of family and friends. Deborah was predeceased by her 3 siblings.
Home Going Services will be Friday April 16, 2021 at 11am in Theo C Auman Funeral Home, 247 Penn St., Reading. Burial to follow in Forest Hills Memorial Park. A viewing will be Friday 10-11am in the funeral home. www.theocaum,an.com