Extracted from The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS)
Wednesday, October 24, 2001

Ethel Williams

Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi.

BILOXI -- Ethel Williams, 92, died Monday, Oct. 22, 2001, in Ocean Springs.

Mrs. Williams was born in Gulfport and remained a lifelong resident of the Coast. She was employed with various seafood factories for many years along the coast. She was a Baptist.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Everett Williams; a daughter, Eula Mae Bosarge; two sons, Aubrey Lee Williams, Charles Lewis Williams; parents, Aaron and Mary Ann King; two sisters, Lillian Kiernan and Annie Belle Lepoma; and four brothers, John King, Henry King, Oscar King and Walter King.

Survivors include two daughters, Shirley Buchholz, Hazel Payne, both of Biloxi; a son, Donald Jerry Williams of Gulfport; 26 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; and 18 great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi where friends may call two hours before service time. Burial will be in D'Iberville Memorial Park.