Obituaries:  Emily Curtis Williams, Sabine Parish       W-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 10, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Emily Curtis Williams

  Services for Mrs. Emily Curtis Williams, 92, of Florien, will be
held at 2 p.m., Thursday, March 10, at the Florien First Baptist
Church. Mrs. Williams' nephew, the Rev. Roy Dowden, and the Rev.
Mack Brister will officiate. Burial will be in the Florien
Cemetery.

  Visitation starts at 4 p.m., Tuesday, at Warren Meadows Funeral
Home in Many. Mrs. Williams will lie in state at the church from
11 a.m., Thursday, until service time.

  Mrs. Williams, the widow of the late Edward Leroy Williams Sr.,
died Monday morning, March 7, 1983, at the Fraser Hospital North
in Many, after a lengthy illness. Mr. and Mrs. Williams owned and
operated Williams General Merchandise and Bus Station in Florien
for many years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of
Florien, past President and Associational Superintendent of the
W. M. U., and was a past Worthy Matron of the Mt. Carmel Chapter
No. 3 of the Order of the Eastern Star.

  Mrs. Williams was preceded in death by one son, Kenneth L.
Williams of Leesville. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Zelma Williams Ritter of San Mateo, Calif.; two sons, Edward L.
Williams, Jr. of Bossier City, and J. Curtis Williams of
Shreveport; one sister, Sybil Farrell of Sacramento, Calif.;
seven grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; and a host of
nieces and nephews; and a multitude of friends.

  Pallbearers will be Tony McDonald, Lester Clements, Curtis Bryan
Williams, Ross Williams, Richard Dupree, Mark Dover.

  Honorary pallbearers: Dr. S. F. Fraser, Max Dover, Fern Dowden,
Carl Dowden, E. K. Bennett, John Carleton, and Clayton Mitchell.