EVERETT LEROY WILLIAMS
EVERETT LEROY WILLIAMS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN OCTOBER 22, 1939, IN EAST PRAIRIE, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE VIRGIL AND EVA LILLIAN (PRATT) WILLIAMS. LEROY DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT PARKLAND HEALTH CENTER ON MAY 16, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF FIFTY-NINE YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND TWENTY-FIVE DAYS.
LEROY WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO NEOMA RUTH EYE ON FEBRUARY 22, 1971, IN POTOSI, MISSOURI.
LEROY IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, NEOMA WILLIAMS OF POTOSI, THREE SONS, THOMAS WILLIAMS OF IOWA, RONALD MINX OF POTOSI, RICK WILLIAMS OF POTOSI, TWO DAUGHTERS, RHONDA WALKER AND HUSBAND JEFF OF CUTRON, STARLA LACHANCE AND HUSBAND EDDIE RAY OF POTOSI, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, A SPECIAL NEPHEW, ROCKY LYN CROCKER OF POTOSI, ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW, KENNETH EYE AND WIFE RUBY OF POTOSI, THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW, RUBY CROCKER AND HUSBAND PERRY OF POTOSI, KATHY PORTELL OF POTOSI, GERLINE EYE OF POTOSI AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE GRANDSON.
LEROY WAS AN HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERAN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, HAVING SERVED FROM OCTOBER 1956 TO OCTOBER 1962, HE SERVED AS AN ELECTRICIANS MATE GENERAL.
PRIOR TO LEROY'S RETIREMENT HE WAS A LONGTIME EMPLOYEE OF CHRYSLER MOTOR COMPANY. LEROY ENJOYED SPENDING TIME IN THE OUTDOORS AND LOVED FISHING AND HUNTING. HE ENJOYED COOKING FOR HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS THEN RELAXING SINGING A SONG OR TWO.
A KIND AND LOVING HUSBAND OF TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, LOVING FATHER, DEAR GRANDFATHER, BROTHER, UNCLE AND SPECIAL FRIEND OF MANY. HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED AND LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY ALL OF THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1999, FROM 5:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN WHITE OAK GROVE CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, ROCKY CROCKER, ROGER EYE, REXIE ISGRIGGS, DAVID COUCH, EUGENE DICUS, TIM SHEPARD, KENNY HAFFER AND ROGER PRICE.