| Bio | Published: Wednesday, June 22, 1994
Daniel E. Willis, a real-estate development executive, died on June 13 at the University of California Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He was 41 and lived in both San Francisco and Manhattan.
The cause was AIDS-related, Sam Sanchez, his companion, said yesterday.
At his death, Mr. Willis was vice president for commercial development at Forest City Ratner Companies, a national developer based in the Metrotech Center in Brooklyn.
A native of Independence, Mo., he graduated from the University of Chicago and held an M.A. from Hunter College and an M.B.A. from New York University.
Before he joined Forest City Ratner in 1987, he spent seven years with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. As one of its officials he worked on the financing and development of such projects as the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, Theater Row on West 42d Street and the South Street Seaport.
He was active in the Municipal Arts Society of New York, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Besides Mr. Sanchez, Mr. Willis is survived by his mother, Virginia Maye Rockey Marth of Higginsville, Mo.; a brother, Jerald A. Willis, and sister, Penelope Linn Marth Quackenbush, both of Independence, and a sister, Brenda Lynn Willis Beesley of Kansas City, Mo.
A version of this obituary; biography appeared in print on Wednesday, June 22, 1994, on section A page 19 of the New York edition. |
