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Jessie Franklin Williams
Dead at age 101
Surnames:
WILLIAMS
HARGRAVE
BETTS
CHISM
CALVERT
PHILLIPS
LOVELACE
FIGUEROA
CHAPMAN
LAIN
MADDEN
LOFTIS
TOMLINSON
THOMAS
COCHRAN
WILSON
RAY
Funeral services for Jessie Franklin
Williams, 101, a resident of Wards Chapel Community will be held at 2 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 2, at
Brown’s Funeral Service Chapel in Atoka with Rev. Tom Hargrave officiating.
Burial will be in Wards Chapel Cemetery under the
direction of Brown’s Funeral Service.
A lifelong Atoka County resident, he died Monday, Nov.
29, 1999, at Atoka Memorial Hospital.
Born Feb. 12, 1898 at Caddo Hills In Bryan County, I. T
he was the son of Thomas Robert and Warnita Betts Williams.
He attended schools at Wards Chapel and Atoka, and was a
member of Wards chapel Baptist Church for more then 85 years. He was ordained there as a deacon on
June 17, 1951.
Williams worked a few years in California in the
shipyards and again in the 59’s as an ironworker. He was a former and rancher for many years and
also was a good mechanic and blacksmith.
He was married to Nannie Mildred Williams at Wards Chapel
in 1919. She preceded him in death. Also preceding him in death were his parents T. R. and Warnita
Williams; a grandson, Hal Chism; three sisters, Effie Calvert, Beulah Phillips and Nita Lovelace;
and two brothers, Cecil Williams and Forest Williams.
Survivors include two children, Mildred Figueroa, and Joe
Kenneth Williams and wife, Elwanda; two sisters, Jewel Chapman and Winnie Lou Lain, all of Atoka;
two grandchildren, Linda Madden and husband, Dennis of Atoka,
And Jerry Williams and wife, Sandy of Weatherford; six
great-grandchildren, Amanda Madden, Alissa Madden, Joshua Williams, Mark Williams, Aaron Chism, and
Scot Chism; along with numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives and many dear friends.
Honorary pallbearers are Don Loftis, Richard Betts, Gene
Tomlinson, Mike Thomas.
Active pallbearers are Ronnie Cochran, Pat Loftis,
Dewayne Wilson, Tinker Ray, Perry Ray and Royce Thomas.
Funeral service, 800 W. 13th Highway West,
Atoka, OK 74525
Notes: Jessie was an original Dowes enrollee, per Carl Phillips, nephew of the
late Jessie Williams
Submitted by Carl Phillips Carl@jps.net
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