John Williams
Posted: December 30, 2011
COLUMBUS — John D. Williams, 69, died Dec. 22, 2011, in Jackson. Services are Saturday at 2 p.m. at Canaan MB Church with Jimmy Pounds officiating. Burial will follow in Friendship Cemetery. Visitation is today from noon – 7 p.m. at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home. Mr. Williams was born May 23, 1942, to O.D. and Mary Lee Williams. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary Ella Williams; brothers, James Earl Williams and Wade Williams; and sister Frances Williams. Survivors include his brothers, Otis Williams, Tommy Lee Williams, Sammy Lee Williams, Authers C. Williams, Lewis Williams, Nathaniel Williams, Freddie B. Williams, Bobby Hill, Kenneth Williams, Fernandez Williams and Lucious Williams, all of Columbus, Bobby Williams and Leon Williams, both of Waterloo, Iowa, and Eddie James Williams of Kansas; sisters, Betty Williams Jones, Laura Hopkins, Susie Williams, Diana Williams, Teri White and Willie Mae Frazier, all of Columbus. Mattie Pearl Allen and Patricia Williams, both of Waterloo; one grandchild and two great-grandchildren. Pallbearers are friends and family members.