Washita Co., OK - Obits: Joan Williams
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                           Joan Williams

Graveside services for Joan Williams were held Friday, September 13 at the
Lawnview Cemetery in Cordell under the direction of McClure Funeral Home.

Joan was born November 21, 1943 in Albany, Georgia. She passed away September
10, 2002 in a Kingfisher Nursing Home at the age of 58.

She was the daughter of Bretch Kelso and Beatrice (Hawkins) Williams. She was
the only child born to this union, so she was very special not only to her
parents, but also to all who knew her.

Joan attended school at Cordell and was a member of the graduating class of
1962. Following high school, she attended Panhandle State University and The
University of Oklahoma, receiving a B.A. in French in 1966. While working on
her bachelor's degree, she also attended the University of Grenoble, Grenoble,
France. Then in 1968 she received a teaching certificate in French and Spanish
from Old Dominion University , Norfold, Virginia and in 1979, a Masters of Arts
Degree in French and English with a Study in Spanish from Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia. And finally, in 1987, she received state
certification in Library Science from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Joan taught from 1966 to 1978 in schools in Georgia and Virginia before
returning to Oklahoma to teach at Deer Creek Schools from 1979 to 1980. At that
time she left education to pursue a certificate in Library Science. In 1987 she
began working for the Metropolitan Library System at Capitol Hill Library in
Oklahoma City. She was employed there until her illness forced her to take
medical disability in March of 2002. While living in Edmond, Joan was a member
of the First Baptist Church and later the Henderson Hills Baptist Church.

She is survived by aunts Bernice Burns and husband Leland of Cheyenne,
Oklahoma; Betti Greenhaw and husband, Richard of Edmond and Mary Williams of
Wilson, Arkansas; as well as numerous cousins, a large number of friends and
her library “family”.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father who were the most important
people in her life.
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