Pearl Madelon (Johns) Williams (1886-1926)

JOHNS, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal August 18, 1926 (page 1)

Williams Funeral Tuesday Afternoon

The funeral of Mrs. E. J. Williams who died at Iowa Sanitarium Saturday night, was held from the Evangelical church Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. C. E. Lookingbill, assisted by Rev. H. J. Wackerbarth. The funeral services were largely attended. Many floral tributes attested the love and esteem in which she was held by a wide circle of friends and among the members of the family.

Mrs. Williams was born at Atlantic, Iowa, on Christmas, 1886, her maiden name being Pearl Madelon Johns, daughter of Frank and Clara Johns.

She was united in marriage to Elmer James Williams at Des Moines in 1906 and there they made their home for a year and a half, coming from there to Nevada, where Mr. Williams engaged in the barber business.

To this union were born nine children, eight surviving, while the infant died following its birth which marked the death of the mother.

The children are John, Howard, Freddie, Ralph, Elmer, Bernice, Geraldine and Zanita. These with her husband, her parents, one sister and two brothers are left to mourn her untimely death.

Mrs. Williams was a wonderful mother and devoted her entire time to the home and her family of children, sacrificing much of the outward pleasures of the world for her home and family.

The death was one of the saddest that has occurred in Nevada in years and the husband and children will be accorded a full measure of sympathy of their neighbors and friends.