WILLIAMS FAMILY HELD REUNION IN TABORWILLIAMS FAMILY HELD REUNION IN TABOR
Glenwood Opinion Tribune
August 6, 1936
The Williams annual reunion was held in the Tabor park Sunday. Officers elected are: President, A.L. Smith of Farragut; vice president, R.B. Williams, Tabor; secretary, Mrs. Nora Tyler, Tabor; treasurer, Dayre Williams; historian, Miss Fern Williams.
WILLIAMS FAMILY REUNION IN TABOR
Glenwood Opinion Tribune
August 9, 1937
The annual reunion of the descendants of Amos Williams was held in the Tabor park Sunday, Aug. 1. Eighty attended, including sixteen of the third generation. Charles and Albert were the oldest clansmen present and Kenneth Harley Delavan, the youngest. Greetings from Mrs. Sarah Williams, 91 of Castana, Ia., revealed that she is the only in-law now living.
Miss Fern Williams read an interesting report of the fifth annual reunion in 1900, when ten of the sixteen children were present. Officers elected for next year are A.L. Smith, Farragut, president; Edward Utterback, Omaha, vice president; Mrs. A.E. Tyler, Tabor, secretary; R.B. Williams, Tabor, treasurer, and Fern Williams, Tabor, historian.
THE WILLIAMS HOME PLACE OF REUNION
COMPLETE FAMILY OF EIGHT AGES FROM 54 TO 74
Malvern Leader
September 9, 1937
About the happiest man in Malvern the past week was C.L. Williams when his home was the meeting place for a family reunion of eight brothers and sisters and their families. A complete family of eight brothers and sisters, the oldest 74 and the youngest 54, is something to be happy about---and for five days they were together---from Friday until Tuesday---they were all young kids again.
This was their first reunion for 15 years and there was so much visiting to be done there was hardly time to sleep so that the 32 guests could get history up to date and reminisce on all the “do you remembers.”
The family, descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Williams, and all natives of Iowa were; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams, Benson, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Williams, Clear Lake, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Letcher, Winnebago, Minn.; Mrs. Clara Vest, Kansas City, Mo.; Enoch Williams, Marathon; Mrs. Will Archer, Faith, S.D.; John Williams, Winnebago, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Williams and two children, Primghar; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shoemaker, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Williams, Kearney, Nebr.; Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Johnson, Max, Doris and Bruce of Council Bluffs; Mrs. Jennie Thompson, Starbuck, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Letcher, Marshall, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Joy Letcher and daughter, Winnebago, Minn.; Mrs. Emma McQuire, Danvers, Minn.
WILLIAMS FAMILY REUNION
Glenwood Opinion Tribune
August 3, 1977
The Williams family held its annual family reunion on July 23-24 at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Phelps.
The oldest generation was represented by five sisters; Mrs. Ruth Sell, Mrs. Blanche Sell and Mrs. Esther Keith, all of Glenwood; Mrs. Virgie Robinette of Phillips, Tex., and Mrs. Doris Lee and husband, Sherman of Buffalo, Mo.; and two brothers, John and wife, Gertie, of Ava, Mo.; and Ross and wife, Molly of Ozark, Mo.
Also attending was Jewell Williams, the widow of the one deceased brothers, Frank.
Descendents of this generation, a group of about 140 people from Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, Texas, Nebraska and Kansas, enjoyed a co-operative dinner Saturday evening and Sunday noon.
WILLIAMS REUNION
Glenwood Opinion Tribune
Friday, July 20, 1979
Approximately 120 descendants of Jim and Kitty Williams met in reunion this past weekend at the Glenwood Lake Park. Ruth Sell and Esther Keith, both of Glenwood and Ross Williams of Ozark, Mo. and John Williams of Ava, Mo. children of the late Jim and Kitty Williams were in attendance.
In addition to the many attending from the local area of Glenwood, Malvern, Mineola, Tabor, Silver City and Omaha, those coming from a distance were John and Gertie Williams, Roger, Zora and Ryan Williams, Ava, Mo.; Ross and Mollie Williams, Ozark, Mo.; Ross and Joan Williams and family, Frieda and Phil Williams, Joplin, Mo.; Ercell Sell, Salt Lake City, Utah; Walter and Geneva Phelps, Prescott, Ariz. and Gene, Dorothy and Ed Kennedy of Dubuque, Richard and Fran Keith and family of Sioux City.
