Calcasieu County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Esther H.  January 14, 2001

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Lake Charles American Press
Esther H. Williams - 1/15/2001

Funeral services for Esther Houston Williams, 96, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, 
Jan. 16, in University United Methodist Church. The Revs. Tom Howe and Henry 
Bowdon Jr. will officiate. Burial will be at 2 p.m. in Blackjack Cemetery in 
Pitkin under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home. Visitation is from 9 a.m. 
Tuesday in the church.

Mrs. Williams died at 6:45 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, 2001, in her residence. A 
native of Reids, she was a graduate of Elizabeth High School. She attended 
Normal State College and graduated from McNeese Sate University. She was a 
retired teacher, teaching at Kinder Elementary for 32 years and Fairview School 
in Grant for one year. She was a member of the Louisiana Retired Teachers 
Association.

She was a member of University United Methodist Church and its Stonerollers 
Sunday school class, the Suzannah Wesley Circle, prayer and Bible study groups 
and United Methodist Women. She was an honorary member of the Administrative 
Counsel. She was a past worthy matron of the Pine Grove Chapter of the Order of 
the Eastern Star in Kinder and was a member of Ruth Chapter Order of the 
Eastern Star in Lake Charles.

Survivors include three sons, Monroe Edwin Williams of Vidor, Texas; Reginald 
Joseph Williams of Pitkin and Roger Clark Williams of Lake Charles; one 
daughter, Nelva Jean Williams Nassar-Jackson of Lake Charles; one brother, 
Henry Elbert Houston of Pitkin; two sisters, Myrtle Houston Golemon of Lake 
Charles and Vivian Houston Nevils of Kinder; 16 gtandchildren; 39 great-
grandchildren; and 18 great-great-grandchildren.