Earl Williams

FORDYCE -- Earl Williams, 74, of Fordyce, formerly of Sparkman, died Dec. 28, 2004, in Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock. He was born Dec. 3, 1930, in Vaden, son of the late Dorsey and Eliza Vaden Williams. He was a sawmill employee and an elder and member of New Faithway Church of God in Christ in Bearden.

Survivors include: His wife, Shirley Williams; three sons, Junius Williams of Arkadelphia, Dr. J. Dawson of Jacksonville and Terry Williams of Alexander; three daughters, Eliza Smith of El Dorado, Mae Jones of Kansas City, Mo., and Vanessa Delamar of Arkadelphia; stepchildren, Grady Kelley of Demopolis, Ala., Benjamin Daniel of Mobile, Ala., Thomas Daniel of Portland, Ore., Essie Pigg and Mary Johnson of Stockton, Calif., and Tonya Juniel and Channon Thompson of Fordyce; a brother, Kerr Williams of Oakland, Calif.; and 32 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday in F.O. Jones Auditorium at Bearden with Bishop D.L. Lindsey officiating. Burial will be in Sparkman Cemetery at Sparkman under the direction of Marks Funeral Home of Fordyce.

Published in The Daily Siftings Herald.