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Submitted: 1/15/20 • Approved: 1/16/20 • Last Updated: 1/19/20 • R245481-G0-S3
May 26, 1912 - December 6, 2008
Frances Marie Williams
age 96, formerly of Franklinton and Covington, Louisiana, died December 6, 2008, in Altamonte Springs, Florida, where she has lived the last years.
Auntie Frances, as she was known to numerous nieces, nephews, grand nieces and nephews, was preceded in death by her parents, Myrtle Moore Williams and Robert Leonard Williams, Sr.,and all her siblings, Martha Williams (infant), John Rodney Williams, Robert Leonard Williams, Jamie Williams Bonsack, and Elizabeth Williams Nutt., along with niece, Nancy Nutt Albury, and nephew, David Nutt.
She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews and their children plus their children. Local survivors are Ann Williams Warner and Suzanne Bonsack Evans. Others are Niven Nutt, Dr. Ronald Thompson, Fran W. Hamilton, Michael Williams, George Williams, Steve Williams, Martha W. Gallegos, John Rodney (Bear) Williams, Bill Bonsack, and Rodney Bonsack.
Frances, a graduate of Florida State University, taught art in Tallahassee before attending and graduating from Columbia University in New York City where she received her M. A. in Fine Arts. During World War II she worked for the Army Map Service in Washington, D. C., where she worked on both Nagasaki and Hiroshima maps. After World War II she worked with her father at Williams Lumber Company in Franklinton. A few years after the death of her father, she and her mother moved to Covington where she taught art at Covington High School for 16 years before retiring and moving to Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1976.
A memorial and burial of ashes service will be at Ellis Cemetery in Franklinton on Saturday, January 10, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Gene Richards will officiate.
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