Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Willie Vay Williams
Services for Willie Vay Lofton Williams will be at 2 p.m. today in Tioga First Baptist Church with the Revs. David Cranford and Lloyd Whitman officiating. Burial will be in Tioga Cemetery under direction of Hixson Brothers, Pineville.
Williams, 91, of Colfax died Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001, in Grant Manor Nursing Home, Colfax.
She was a member of Tioga First Baptist Church, WMU and a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Williams parents, W.B. and Ollie Corley Lofton one brother, Aaron Lofton and one sister, Ruth Semple.
Survivors include one son, Gordon W. Williams of Hughes Springs, Texas two daughters, Johnnie Ruth Despino of Colfax and Nora Ann O'Neal of Siloan Springs, Ark. four brothers, W.B. Lofton of Nederland, Texas, Harvey Lofton of Houston, Fred Lofton of Port Arthur, Texas, and Johnny Lofton of Groves, Texas one sister, Hazel Damon of Port Arthur, Texas nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be David O'Neal, Patrick O'Neal, Bruce Despino, Dale Despino, Steve Williams and Kermit Pharris.
Friends may call from 8 a.m. until noon today in the funeral home and from 1 p.m. until time of services in the church.
Saturday, December 15, 2001