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   Archie L. Williams
   
   Services  will  be  at  2 p.m. Saturday in Grand Avenue Baptist Church
   with  the  Rev. David Driskill of the church and the Rev. Jerry Veazey
   of  Harvest Life Center Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial
   Park Cemetery by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40.
   
   Mr.  Williams  was  born Feb. 2, 1921, in Jester, Okla., to Willie and
   Ollie Williams. He worked as a master plumber pipe fitter. He moved to
   Amarillo in 1946 from Oklahoma.
   
   He  was  a  member of Harvest Life Center Church in Amarillo. He was a
   veteran  of  the  Army,  entering  the service at Fort Sill, Okla., in
   August 1943 and was discharged at Camp Chaffee, Ark., in January 1946.
   
   He  was  awarded  the World War II Victory Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal,
   American  Theater  Ribbon, EAME Theater Ribbon, two Bronze Stars and a
   Purple  Heart,  which  he received when wounded in the EAME Theater on
   Feb. 17, 1945.
   
   Survivors  include  a  son,  Ollie  Preston Williams of Mangum, Okla.;
   three  daughters,  Patricia "Trish" Thompson of Amarillo, Willie Marie
   Williams  of  Kenton,  Okla.,  and  Dorothy  Pottroff  of Florida; two
   brothers,  Raymond  Williams  and  Cleo Williams, both of Mangum; four
   sisters,  Mary Jo Taylor of Vinson, Okla., Stella Williams of Oklahoma
   City,  and  Irene  Reagen  and  Bertha  Cooley,  both of Mangum; eight
   grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
   
   The  family  suggests  memorials  be  to  Harvest  Life  Center Church
   Building Fund, 1401 Apache St., Amarillo, TX 79107.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 23, 2002