Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Joseph July 16, 1951
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot July 18, 1951

                  Joseph Williams Dies; Funeral at Zion Church

Joseph Williams, 77, long prominent in fraternal, church and civic work among 
Norfolk's Negroes, died Monday at 11:45 p.m. at his residence, 1381 Chapel 
Street, after a long illness. He was a retired employee of the Norfolk and 
Western Railway.
A native of Jacksonville, N.C., he had lived in Norfolk most of his life. He had 
been chairman of the trustee board of the Metropolitan A.M.E Zion Church for 19 
years and was a past Master Mason of the Negro Masonic order.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillian Davis Williams; one daughter, Miss Ida W. 
Jones; five sons, Clyde, Ben, Lee, John and Claude Williams, all of Norfolk and 
five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Metropolitan 
A.M.E. Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.



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