Obituaries: Ruth Carroway Williams, 1966, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 10, 1966 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. B. Williams Succumbs; Rites Held November 6

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth C. Williams, 68, were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday
in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield by Rev. R. E. Walton. 
Burial was in the New Jerusalem Cemetery near Winnfield under direction of
Southern Funeral Home.

Mrs. Williams died at 6:45 Friday, November 4, 1966 in a Winnfield hospital
after a long illness.  She was a native of Arkansas and a member of the First
Methodist Church of Winnfield.  She was a descendant of the Carroway family,
early settlers of Winn Parish.

Survivors include her husband, Burton H. Williams of Winnfield; two sons, Dr.
Burton H. Williams, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, and M-Sgt. James E. Williams of
Bossier City; two daughters, Mrs. Don E. Bailey of Lowell, Ind., and Mrs. J.
W. Kennedy, Jr., of Winnfield; a brother, Drew Carrowasy of Winnfield; two
sisters, Mrs. Blanchard Harper of Winnfield and Mrs. Paul Henderson of
Houston, Texas, and 10 grandchildren.

Pallbearers were C. C. Carter, Marvin Carroway, Frank Shaw, Dan Page, James
Thomas, and Dalton Martin.