Wise Co., Texas Obits: Don James Williams - 1905-2000
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Don James Williams
1905-2000

Service for Don James Williams, 94, of Decatur will be Monday, April 24,
at 10 a.m. in the Coker Funeral Home Chapel in Decatur. 
The Rev. Jerry  Miller will preside. Burial will follow at the Aurora 
Cemetery in Aurora. Williams died on April 20, 2000, in Decatur.

He was born on Aug. 9, 1905, in Orange.
He spent 38 years in Houston and retired in 1970 from the Houston Power
and Light Co. He moved to Dallas in 1973 and then to Decatur in 1977.

Williams was a fifth-generation native Texan. He was a descendant of 
Stephen Williams, a soldier in the American Revolution, the War of 1812
and the Texas Revolution.

His wife, Verna Bradford Williams preceded him in death in 1994.

Williams is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Henry J. and 
Betty F. Williams of San Antonio; two grandchildren, Bruce and Charles 
and his wife Sherri Williams of Decatur; three nieces and their 
families, Pat Rhine, Donna and Loyd Jackson and Betty Rhodes, all of 
Decatur; three great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
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