Erma Williams, an 88-year-old resident of Eldon, died at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, where she had been a patient for a few hours after suffering a stroke in Eldon. She was the sister of Leo Whitaker of Trenton.
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Erma Williams, an 88-year-old resident of Eldon, died at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia, where she had been a patient for a few hours after suffering a stroke in Eldon. She was the sister of Leo Whitaker of Trenton.
Arrangements are pending at the Rekus Funeral Home in Eldon.
Mrs. Williams was born Jan. 2, 1918 near Iberia, the daughter of Thomas B. and O’dessa Humphrey Whitaker. She graduated from Tuscumbia High School. She was married on July 8, 1939 to Laird D. Williams. He was employed with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the couple lived in several towns in the United States before his death in 1961.
She was a member of the Ninth Street Christian Church in Eldon and the Eastern Star.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. LaVange Boone and her husband, Jack of Overland Park, KS; three sisters, Mrs. Velma Welch of Dixon, Mrs. Gladys Slone of Springfield and Mrs. Edith Duckworth of Liberty; two brothers, Archie Whitaker of Dixon and Leo Whitaker of Trenton; several grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two sons, three sisters and one brother.