Obituaries:  Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams, Sabine Parish       W-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 25, 2000
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams

  Mr. Kenneth Merald Williams, 85, died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000, at
Greenville Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness. He was
born May 19, 1915, in Florien, and he was son of the late
Benjamin Lightfoot, and Armbus Corley Williams. Predeceased by
five sisters; and one brother.

  Services were held at the First Baptist Church of Greenville, N.
C., with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park.

  Mr. Williams was a 1937 graduate of Northwestern State
University in Louisiana. He was a high school teacher, and
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 Company
in Asheville, N. C., later transferring to Greenville, N. C.,
where in 1957, he founded Kent Mobile Home Sales, and was
co-founder of Kent-Gault Mobil Homes. He became a principal in
New South Investment Company, and in 1976, he joined the
Litchfield Company of South Carolina, and remained there until
retirement in 1989.

  Surviving are 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; a son and
daughter-in-law, Kenneth M. Williams Jr., and Stefanie Z.
Williams of Mount Pleasant; and nine grandchildren, Jason, Josh,
and Caroline Gray, Meg, and Tee Calnon, and Virginia, Christina,
Amanda, and Kent (III) Williams.

  Mr. Williams was the uncle of Betty Jean Dees, Ross, David, and
Bill Williams. And others that live in Sabine Parish.