Obituaries:  Mr. Huey J. Williams, Sabine, Vernon Parish       W-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 14, 1993
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mr. Huey J. Williams

  Funeral services for Huey J. Williams were held at 2 p.m.,
Saturday, July 10, 1993, in the First Baptist Church in
Leesville, with the Rev. Lionell Crowell, and Rev. Wallace
Palmer, and Aubrey Boswell officiating. Burial followed in the
Self Cemetery in Hornbeck, under the direction of the Hixson
Funeral Home of Leesville.

  Mr. Williams, 59, of Leesville, died at 5:30, Wednesday, July 7,
1993, in the St. Francis Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria.

  Mr. Williams served in the U. S. Army as a sergeant during the
Korean Conflict. He is a graduate of Hornbeck High School, class
of 1952, McNeese State University, and the New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary. He served as Minister of Music/Youth at the
First Baptist Church in Westlake for 10 years and 3 months. He
has been Minister of Music and Outreach for the last 23 years at
the First Baptist Church in Leesville.

  Mr. Williams is survived by his wife, Mrs. Patricia R. Williams
of Leesville; one daughter, Mrs. Denise Campbell of Norcross,
Ga.; two sons, J., and Jonathan Williams of Leesville; three
sisters, Mrs. Elva Redden of Shreveport, Mrs. Velva Vincent of
Hornbeck, and Mrs. Audrey Grant of Mansfield.

  In lieu of flowers, the family requests Memorials to be made to
B. B. McKinney Scholarship Fund of the Singing Ministers of
Louisiana, and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Church Music Department.