Williams, Laura E. 1898-1992

WILLIAMS, SMITH

Posted By: Barbara Kamradt (email)
Date: 1/24/2004 at 13:04:38

Laura E. WILLIAMS

Laura E. Williams, 93, of rural Hinton, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 1992, at a Sioux City hospital after a long illness

Services were at 10 a.m. Monday at the Christy Morningside Funeral home with Rev. Kaurice D. Streyfeller of the Wesley United Methodist church officiating. Burial was at Liberty township cemetery, Hinton. Visitation was Sunday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Williams was born on Dec. 31, 1898, at Ponca, Neb., daughter of Charles L. and Edith U. Smith. She graduated from Ponca High School. She taught school at Akorn, Colo., and at the Perry #3 School in Plymouth county. She married Earl Williams at Hinton on Oct. 25, 1919. He died on Aug 14, 1973. She lived on the same farm near Hinton for over 70 years. She is a Methodist.

Survivors include eight sons, Lester and John, both of Sioux City, Melvin of Westfield, Daryl of South Cioux City, Howard, Richard and Gary, all of Merrill, and Paul of Hinton; two daughters, Jean Woodruff of Lawndale, Calif., and Doris Williams of Maywood, Calif.; a sister, Joyce Carssow of Bellflower, Calif.; 20 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

She was preceeded in death by three sisters and two brothers.