Estelle Ai WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS, SWEARINGEN, WRIGHT, HODGELL, YOUNKER, BEEBER, WIPPERLING, MACK, EASTWOOD, HELM

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2009 at 10:17:52

GILMORE CITY, IA - Estelle "Slim" Williams, 73, of Gilmore City, died Thursday, Jan 17, 2002, at the Pocahontas Community Hospital, Pocahontas. Services will be held Monday, Jan. 21, at 10:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church, Gilmore City, with the Rev. Ray Block officiating. Burial will be in Marble Valley Cemetery, Gilmore City. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Harris Funeral Home in Gilmore City.

Estelle Ai Williams, the son of Jacob and Winnie Mae Swearingen Williams was born Sept. 8, 1928, in Laurens. He received his education in Marathon and Storm Lake. He worked in the Cobble Stone Ball Room in Storm Lake before entering the Armed Forces during the Korean Conflict. After the service he married Therldean Wright in Nebraska. The couple eventually divorced and Slim married Ellen Hodgell in July 1971 in Sioux Falls, S.D. After their marriage the couple lived in Gilmore City during their married lives. Slim worked for Midwest Limestone for 23 years and Geise Construction in Eagle Grove until his retirement in 1990.
Survivors include his wife Ellen of Gilmore City; sister Izetta Younker of Storm Lake; sons, James of Kimball, Neb., Alan of Chesterfield, Mich., Ronald of Sac City, Gary of Emmetsburg, Roger and John of Pocahontas, Michael of Waukee, and Daniel of Gilmore City; daughters, Retta Williams and Sharon Beeber of Carroll, Beverly Wipperling of Pocahontas, Susan Mack of Storm Lake, and Laura Eastwood of Fort Dodge; and 27 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, son, Rick Williams, brother, Ralph Williams, sisters, Pearl Williams and Rozella Helm, and a grandson, Kyle Williams. He was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Gilmore City, the Bradgate V.F.W. and the Pigeon Club of Iowa.

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