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Shelby
County Newspaper
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The Shelbyville Daily Union, May 5, 1966.
R.L. Williams Dies in
Decatur
Roy Lloyd Williams, 71, of 1512
West
Grand, Decatur, died at 6:25 a.m. Wednesday at the Decatur and Macon
County Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the
Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at
2:30 p.m. Friday at Glenwood
cemetery [sic], Shelbyville.
Mr. Williams moved to Decatur from Shelbyville 15
years ago. He was a retired employe [sic] of the Signal Depot in
Decatur and was affiliated
with the Grand Baptist Church. He was a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America.
He was born Aug. 15, 1894, in Shelby county, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Williams.
Mr. Williams married Retha McCollum, who died
January, 1947. He married Bessie Newcum Sept. 15, 1957, in
Taylorville.
He leaves his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Ray (Leota)
Yantis, Findlay; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Carl (Juanita) Jackson and
Mrs. Dave (Joyce)
Taylor, both of Litchfield; one sister, Mrs. Clyde (Amanda) Goodwin,
Decatur; three brothers, Louis of Jackson, Mich., Howard of Decatur and
Warren of
Chicago; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
NOTE: Roy Williams
is
probably related to the Williams family who attended the Stewardson
School around the turn of the century.
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