Obituaries:  Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams, Sabine Parish       W-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 18, 2000
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams

  Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams, 85, died Sunday, Oct. 7, 2000, at
Greenville, South Carolina Memorial Hospital, following a brief
illness.

  Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, at
First Baptist Church of Greenville, with interment following at
Woodlawn Memorial Park.

  Mr. Williams was born April 19, 1915, in Florien, to the late
Benjamin Lightfoot, and Ambus Corley Williams. He was preceded in
death by five sisters, and one brother.

  Mr. Williams was a 1937 graduate if Northwestern State
University in Natchitoches. He was a high school teacher, and a
basketball coach, before enlisting in the U. S. Army Air Corps in
1941. He became a flight instructor, and later a squadron
commander, before leaving active duty as a Major in 1945.
Following military service, he joined Commercial Credit Co. in
Asheville, N. C., later transferring to Greenville, where in
1957, he founded Kent Mobile Homes Sales, and was co-founder of
Kent-Gault Mobile Homes. He became a principal in New South
Investment Co., and in 1976, he joined the Litchfield Co. of
South Carolina, and remained there until retirement in 1989.

  Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Alwayne DeLozier
Williams; two daughters, and sons-in-law, Susan and Asa M. Gray,
and Nancy and Timothy D. Calnon, all of Greenville, S. C.; son
and daughter-in-law, Kenneth M. Williams, Jr. and Stefanie Z.
Williams of Mt. Pleasant; nine grandchildren, Jason, Josh, and
Caroline Gray, Meg and Tee Calnon, and Virginia, Christina,
Amanda, and Kent(III) Williams.

  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Habitat for
Humanity, or National WWII Memorial, 2300 Clarendon Blvd., Suite
501. Arlington, Va., 22201.