Obituary, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana --Ellie Ann Howell Williams Submitted by: Bobbie Barrett Source: DeSoto Parish GenWeb --------------------------------- ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ---------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Ellie Ann Howell Williams Life-Long Resident of DeSoto Parish Passes Away: Mrs. Ellie Ann Howell Williams widow of the Late Jeff D. Williams and life long resident of DeSoto Parrish died Friday morning, August 19, 1949, at the Curtis Clinic. Funeral services were held Saturday, Aug 20 at 5 o'clock from the Drewitt Funeral Home with Dr. George A. Ritchey of the First Baptist Church, Mansfield, and Rev. J. P. King, of Antioch Baptish Church officiating. Interment was in the the Allen Cemetery. She is survived by eight children. Mrs. H. C. Robertson, Mrs. Wayne Smith, Mrs. Rascoe Hamilton, Mrs. Bill James, all of Mansfield: Mrs D. F. Parry of Logansport, Mrs. Al H. Jones and Mrs. Glenn Overman, of Sulphur, and O. D. Williams of Tulsa Okla., twelve grand-children, six great-grandchildren, one brother Beulah Howell of Vivian, and three sisters, Mrs. West Williams, Mrs. C. C. Williams and Mrs. Ed Mathis.