Obit of Lee Edwin Williams (w452) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  11 Sep 2002
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Surnames: Williams, Garver, Mills, James, Sander, Gillispie, Cole, 
Parks, Biggs 

Originally posted at:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5208

Lee Edwin Williams of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 90, passed away early 
Sunday morning, January 21, 2001 with his loving wife of 72 years 
close by.  Lee was born October 8, 1910 in Rankin, Roger Mills 
County, Oklahoma to Ed H. and Lula Garver Williams.  Lee's father 
homesteaded in the Cheyenne and Arapaho land in 1903, at first 
living in a dugout.

Lee married Sophis May Mills on July 4, 1928 at the home of the 
bride's parents near Rankin.  They left Roger Mills County and moved 
to Guthrie in Logan County in 1935.

Lee was a 32 degree Mason, being a member of Masonic Lodge No. 35 in 
Guthrie.

A devoted father of three children, Lee is survived by his wife, 
Sophia, and children Lela James of Oklahoma City, Dwayne Williams of 
Edmond, Oklahoma and Geraldine Sander of Idaho Springs, Colorado.  
He is survived by his sisters and brothers, May Gillispie of 
Medford, Oregon, Ina Cole of Oklahoma City; Goldie Parks of 
Mannford, Oklahoma, Zella Biggs of Gurhrie, Vernon Williams of 
Guthrie and Clarence (Jack) Williams of Perry.  Lee has six 
grandchildren and five great grandchildren.  He was preceded in 
death by his parents and a grandson.

Services were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Smith funeral Home 
chapel.  Followed by a Masonic service and burial in Summit View 
Cemetery in Guthrie.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK