Obit of Williams, Benjamin Mace - Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 29 May 2005 Return to Pottawatomie County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pottawatomie/pottawatomie.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Williams Green Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1187 Benjamin Mace Williams Services for Benjamin Mace Williams, 91, Muskogee, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the Sulphur United Methodist Church with Rev. Frank Morgan officiating. Interment will be in Oaklawn Cemetery with Clagg Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Born January 25, 1914 in St. Louis, Okla., to Frank G. Williams and Sallie Green Williams, he died Monday, March 21 at Muskogee. He married Dixie Mildred Williams at Duncan and she preceded him in death on May 29, 2004. A veteran of WW II, he was a member of the Sulphur United Methodist Church and had served as Oklahoma School for the Deaf Administrator. He moved to Sulphur as a teenager, graduating from Sulphur High School. In 1954, he helped co-found Sooner Foods in Sulphur. He also owned and operated Mace's Department Store. In 1984, he retired as business administrator at OSD. While active here, he was in many business and civic organizations in Sulphur. He is survived by a daughter, Sally Bufkin, Louisville, Ky.; a son and daughter-in-law, Gene and Trudy Williams, Muskogee; a brother, Fred Williams, Chandler; six grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Jeffrie Joe Williams; a son-in-law, Ron Bufkin; great grandson, Benjamin Mace Williams; a brother and sister-in-law, Carl and Ruby Williams; a sister, Bernice Anderson and a sister-in-law, Ruth Williams. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pottawatomie County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pottawatomie/pottawatomie.htm