Harmon Co. OK Obit for: LaVerne (Payne) Williams 
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For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
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11/28/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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OCT. 30 


LaVerne (Payne) Williams, 96, died Wednesday at Jackson County Memorial 
Hospital. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in 
Gould 
with Reverend Ralph Chapman and Reverend Rick Simonson officiating. 

Interment will follow at the Gould Cemetery. 

She was born July 28, 1917 in Harmon County to pioneer homesteaders Harry W. and 
Linnie (Richardson) Payne. 

She married W. C. Williams, Jr., on September 4, 1938 at the family home east of 
Gould where they have resided for the last forty-five years. 

In 1929, at the age of 12, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior and 
since that time she has been a member of the First Baptist Church in Gould. 
She has faithfully served her church in countless ways, including, but certainly 
not limited to teaching the Ruth Sunday School class for over forty years; 
directing 
YWAs, GAs and Sunbeams; and working in Vacation Bible School. 

One of her many God given gifts was encouraging and supporting her pastor and 
her 
church family. 

A great joy in her life was being able to participate in the 100th anniversary 
of 
Gould FBC this month. 

She attended grade school at Lahoma, was a 1935 graduate of Gould High School, 
and also attended Oklahoma Baptist University and Oklahoma A&M. 

One of the original Gould Cemetery Committee members, she spent 51 years 
overseeing 
and caring for the cemetery. 

She was also a longtime member of Chapter O of PEO in Hollis, Eastern Star, 
Self Culture Club, Altrusian Club, Lahoma Home Demonstration Club, American 
Legion 
Auxiliary, and Harmon County historical Society. 

She enjoyed working with W. C. and the boys in everyday farming activities and 
she never tired of spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-
grandchildren. 

She also enjoyed working in her garden and traveling - especially with the many 
dear friends she and W. C. made over the years through his service on the local 
Soil Conservation board. 

She is survived by her husband of sixty four years, W. C. Williams, of the home; 
two sons and their wives, Jimmy and Mary Paul Williams, Gould, and Gene and 
Phyllis Williams, Hollis; six grandchildren, Robert and Nikki Williams, Gould, 
Steven and Beth Williams, Greeley, Colorado, Melinda and Shad Hane, Stillwater, 
David and Sharra Williams, Edmond, Linnie and Devin Wilcox, Tulsa, and Gena Kaye 
Williams, Stillwater; nine great-grandchildren, Mitch, Kelsie, Dal and Austin 
Williams, Gould, Isaac and Andrea Williams, Greeley, Colorado, Kylie and Corbin 
Hane, Stillwater, and Gage Williams, Edmond. 

She is also survived by one sister-in-law, Ruth Williams, Yukon and several 
nieces 
and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her youngest son, Richard Odom Williams in 1965, 
her 
parents, two sisters, Gladys Payne and Vivian Payne Cochran; and one brother, W. 
D. 
Payne. 

In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials to made to the Gould 
Cemetery, 
the Harmon County Museum, or the charity of your choice.