Mary Williams — UPDATED
Mary Williams, 83, LaFontaine, passed away at 11:28 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, at Autumn Ridge Rehabilitation Centre in Wabash.
She was born in Huntington County Jan. 9, 1935, to the late Claude S. and Francis M. (Shipley) Jones. She was a 1953 graduate of Jackson Township in Wells County. She married Noel “Brooks” Williams on Nov. 20, 1955; he died Aug. 6, 2005. She retired from RCA in Marion.
She is survived by one son, Larry (Eva) Williams, LaFontaine; three daughters: Shirley (David) Sarll, Wabash; Patricia (Tim) Adkins, Silver Lake; and Peggy (Jerry) Watson, Wabash; seven brothers:James (Marge) Jones, John (Margie) Jones, Donald Jones, all of Warren; Tom (Wanda) Jones, Montpelier; Harold (Kathie) Jones, Fort Wayne; Max (Donna) Jones, Hartford City; and Tim (Lynn) Jones, Bluffton; seven sisters: Irene Lizar, Gas City; Sharon (Jerry) Piqune, Warren; Judy (Tom) Peden, Hartford City; Linda Bontrager, Mesa, Ariz.; Nancy (Meredith) Tudor, Warren; Margaret (Paul) Fritts, Montpelier; and Debbie Watson, Marion; twelve grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by one daughter, two brothers, one brother-in-law and one sister-in-law.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, at McDonald Funeral Home, LaFontaine Chapel,104 South Main Street, LaFontaine with Harold and Kathie Jones officiating. Burial will follow at the IOOF LaFontaine Cemetery. Friends may call from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorials are to the American Diabetes Association.