OBITUARY: Guy C. Williams 1915-2002

[Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted January 1, 2003]


                             Guy C. Williams

Funeral services were held Friday, December 27, 2002 for Guy C. Williams,
87, of Mason City at First United Methodist Church, Wayside Chapel,
119 S. Georgia. The Reverend Jeff Dahlin officiated. Interment was in
Osage Cemetery, Osage. He died Monday, December 23, 2002 at the Muse
Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

Guy C. Williams was born May 8, 1915 in Waterloo, IA the son of Lancie and
Hazel (Stokes) Williams. He spent his boyhood years in Pierre, SD. In 1933
he graduated from Osage High School and served his country in the U.S. Army
during WW II from 1941 to 1946. On April 10, 1943, Guy married Helen
Barrick. They moved to Manly in 1946 where he ran the Manly Hatchery. 

In 1961 they moved to Osage where he was affiliated with North Iowa
Hatcheries. Mason City became their home in 1969 where he was employed
by MacNider Art Museum. He loved art, music, drawing, painting, making
pottery, weavings and building musical instruments, figurines and
furniture. His interests also included bird watching, astronomy,
genealogy and growing flowers.

Guy was preceded in death by his wife Helen, parents and brother Dale.

His survivors include two sons Gerald Williams and wife Linda of Missouri,
and Robert Williams and wife Mary of Mason City, two daughters Cathleen
and her husband Dennis Palmini of Wisconsin and Rebecca of Arizona,
grandchildren Jeff, Melissa, Tom, David, Andrew, Bethany, Ryan and Steve,
eight great-grandchildren and a sister Merle Carter of Osage.

Major Erickson Funeral Home, Mason City, had charge of arrangements





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