Fayette County – John Tom Williams, 60, lifelong resident of the Mason Community, longtime West Tennessee Farmer and current Farm Manager for the Agricenter International in Memphis, died September 17, 2012. Services of Remembrance will be at 4 p.m. Thursday, September 20 at Braden United Methodist Church, where he was a devoted member. Visitation will continue at the church one hour before services.
Interment will be in the Cedar Hill Cemetery at Mason. He received his education at Byars Hall High School in Covington and the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he was an active member and served as Vice President of the ATO fraternity.
He was devoted to his family, community and church, and served as church director of the “Living Last Supper” drama for a number of years. He was a volunteer for the Braden Fire Dept and instrumental in the formation of the Covington Gridiron Assn., where he had served as President. Mr. Williams was a former member of the Board of Directors for the Bank of Mason.
He is survived by his wife, Eva Dale Cocke Williams; his children, Lauren Rhea Williams of Mason, Dr. John Barton Williams of Salt Lake City, UT, Allen Riddick Williams of Mason; his parents, Jerry and Nell Rhea Gray Williams of Mason; and his brother, Lawrence “Larry” Williams of Mason. Memorials are requested to Braden United Methodist Church, 335 Hwy. 59, Mason, TN 38049, or Covington Gridiron Assn., P.O. Box 501, Covington, TN 38019.
Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes & Cremation Center – Main Chapel
Somerville, TN 901-465-3535
www.peeblesfuneralhome.com
[The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, September 20, 2012]
Bozo Williams Family
Father: Thomas Jefferson ‘Bozo’ Williams (1876-1935)
Mother: Fannie Cotton Richardson Williams – Mama Fannie (1876-1960)
Siblings:
- Mark Gerald Williams (1898-1982) m. Thelma Grey Williams (1906-1970)
- Thomas Edwards Williams, Sr. (1898-1955) m. Mismartha Chandler Williams (1901-1955)
- Thomas Edward Williams, Jr. (1929-2010) m. Patricia Maybelle Crews (1925-2008)
- Jim Allen Williams
- Thomas Edward Williams III (1956-2007)
- Tonja Elaine Williams
- Thomas Edward Williams, Jr. (1929-2010) m. Patricia Maybelle Crews (1925-2008)
- Frank Moore Williams (1901-1946) m. Verbal Inez Selph (1909-1959)
- Katherine Inez Williams King (1928-2002) m. Frank James King (1925-1973)
- Joy Marie Williams Dagen (1932-2013) m. Henry Dagen
- Jessie Blanche Williams Thompson (1904-1978) m. James Floyd Thompson (1905-1973)
- R. Thompson Shoaf
- Margaret Voncile Thompson (1925-2012)
- James Conrad Thompson (1933-2022) m. Margaret Marie Parrott (1933-2013)
- Lori Thompson Glover
- Jeff Thompson
- Ken Thompson
- Dorris F Williams (1906-2001) m. Olen Bailey Hogan (1905-1931)
- Dorothy Allison “Dot” Hogan Cottam (1925-2013) m. Jerome Alphonsus “Jerry” Cottam Jr. (1926-1998)
- John Alfred ‘TJ’ Williams (1908-1975) m. Lexie Lois Faulk Williams (1911-1986)
- Lawrence Jerry Williams (1930-2017) m. Nell Rhea Gray (1930-2021)
- Lawrence Lee “Larry” Williams
- John Thomas “John Tom” Williams (1952-2012)
- Dr. John Barton Williams (1984-2021)
- Jim Tom Williams (1931-1994) m. Margaret Alice Nichols
- Mary Lynne Williams-Rigsby
- Alicia Ann Williams Howes
- Mary Ann Williams Russell m. Glynn Lee Russell
- Greg Russell
- LeAnn Russell Hill
- Lawrence Jerry Williams (1930-2017) m. Nell Rhea Gray (1930-2021)
- Emma Iris Williams (1914-1963)
- Rubye Earl Williams (1916-1991)
- James Allen Williams (1917-1972) m. Elsie Hendrix Campbell
- Margaret Helen Williams (1917-2004)
- Riley Fischer Williams (1918-1918)