Cook County GaArchives Obituaries.....Williams, Pearlie Ruth Register September 2, 2009
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The Berrien Press - September 9, 2009
 Mrs. Pearlie Ruth Register Williams, 103, of Adel passed away peacefully on 
Wednesday, September 2, 2009, at Adel Memorial Hospital in the presence of 
family.
 "Mrs. Pearlie," as she has affectionately been known around Cook County for 
many years, was born on New Years's Day, January 1, 1906, in Clinch County to 
the late Leman L. and Susie Vivian Register.
 The eldest of seven children, she was lifetime resident of Cook County, 
having moving there with her family as a young child and attending Cook County 
Schools. She was a longtime member of Adel United Methodist Church and Glad 
Tidings Circle. A devoted wife, mother and grandmother, she was actively 
involved in her family's businesses and activities. She was a great cook and 
loved spending time with and cooking for her big family.
 She was also an astute business woman. In 1926, at the age of 20, she briefly 
moved to Columbus, GA to live with her grandmother and work in the local 
Woolworth's. It was there that she met and married her late husband, Asa Grady 
Williams, and where together they operated a restaurant business until the 
Depression took its toll. They then returned to settle permanently in Cook 
County to be near family, farm and raise their children.
 When Asa died in 1954, the rest of the family kept the farm going a few more 
years before moving into town in 1959. Left a young widow, she soon began 
selling a new product called "Tupperware" out of her home; she was such a good 
saleswoman and hard worker, she soon became a district manager for the 
company, traveling the South GA district for many years. She continued to sell 
Tupperware as a side job, even after opening a small motel in Adel in 1966, 
and continued to do so until she retired from Tupperware in 1993. Adding to 
her already busy schedule, in 1976, she also began working in her son's 
budding business, the King Frog Restaurant and Clothing Outlet, where she 
became a beloved "fixture" in the business, cashiering, rolling silverware, 
and greeting her many customers as they entered. Never one to sit at home, she 
had continued living alone and "renting rooms" until her recent illness and 
hospitalization.
 Survivors include her son, John L. Williams of Adel; six grandchildren, Diane 
(Ed) Stith of Hahira, John (Lori) Mathis of Adel, Debi (Paul) McNeal, Rick 
(Emily) Williams, Mike (Deane) Williams, all of Valdosta, Steve (Lynn) 
Williams of Adel; 17 great grandchildren, Keith Stith, Missy Turner, Joey 
Stith, Eric Croft, Suzanne Bennett, Scott Croft, Stephanie Spence, Hannah 
Mathis, Josh Mathis, Andrew and Josh McNeal, John and Matt Williams, Jamie and 
Thomas Williams, Kaysie and Candice Williams, and 14 great-great grandchildren.
 In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her 
daughter and son-in-law, Vesta and Charles Thurmond, her daughter-in-law, 
Joyce Williams; her granddaughter, Gail Hall and her six siblings, Mayme 
Postell Jordan, Pauline Hayes, Lona Belle Brown, Mary Nell Joiner, Walker 
Register and Marvin Register.
 Donations may be made to Adel United Methodist Church in her memory.
 Funeral services were held Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. at Adel United Methodist Church 
with the Revs. V. L. Daughtrey, Craig Hutto and Jimmy Sharp officiating.
 Interment followed at Woodlawn Cemetery Annex.
 Boone-Lipsey Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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