Obituaries: Mrs. Lillie Hughes Williams, 1945 Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 13, 1945 Winn Parish Enterprise 

Mrs. L. Williams Succumbs Sept. 8 at Home in Sardis

Funeral services were conducted September 9, 1945, at 3 o'clock at the 
Springhill Baptist Church, near Jonesboro, for Mrs. Lillie Williams.  The 
Rev. Drew Myres and Rev. J. Jones officiated.

Serving as pallbearers were Rev. L. B. Williams, K. U. Williams, G. D.
Williams, Page Sims, Jack Myres, and Weidner Spillers.

After several weeks illness Mrs. Williams died at her home in the Sardis
community on Saturday, September 8.  She was 66 years, 10 months, and three
weeks of age.

She was born Lillie Hughes, near Bastrop, in 1878.  When four years old her
parents died and she was separated from her sisters and brothers and brought
to Jackson Parish where she was reared.  In 1896 she married Louis R.
Williams.

In the spring of 1945 Mrs. Williams was reunited with her two brothers and one
sister, with whom she had lost contact.  Since then she had spent some
time with them.

She is survived by her husband and two sons, Dewey and Don F. Williams, two
brothers, Ben and Henry Hughes, a sister, Mrs. Julia Hughes, all of Bastrop;
six grandchildren, Kenneth and Gresham Williams and Mrs. Tom Driggers, all
of Jonesboro, Louis B., Mildred, and Donnie Williams, of Atlanta, Route One,
and seven great grandchildren.