O.L. Williams, Jr.

Elder O.L. Williams, Jr.,88, Saturday, March 21, 2009, at Clarendon.

1:00 pm on Saturday, March 28, 2009 in the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Elder Harry Williams, Pastor of the New Jerusalem COGIC of Borger and Elder Roy S. Williams, Sr. , Pastor of the St. Stephens Baptist Church of Clarendon, officiating. Burial was held at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa. Services are under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Elder Williams, a long-time resident of Clarendon and the past 34 years in Pampa, was born January 7, 1921, to the late “Mother” Elvan Williams and O.L. Williams, Sr., in Dawson, where he also attended school. In 1944, he married Susie B. Jones and to that union was born ten children. Elder Williams accepted Christ and was called into the ministry in the Holiness Church in Clarendon, which is now called the True Church of God in Christ. Elder Williams served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict. He loved preaching, serving God, and his wife and children. He also loved farming and ranching. He worked many years for Jiggs Mann of Clarendon and the Brittens of Groom. He later married Zonia Lynn on July 7, 1975, in Clovis, NM.

He was preceded in death by his parents; seven brothers; three sisters; his first wife, Susie B. Williams; three daughters, Lois Yarbrough, Barbara Walton, and Pamela March; and a grandchild, Ricky Yarbrough.

Survivors include his wife, Zonia Williams of Pampa; three sisters, Faye Conway of Austin, Betty Scott of Sweetwater, and Peggy Jackson of Dallas; three daughters, Peggy Smith and husband Mack of Clarendon, and Sandra Williams of Denver, CO; 5 sons, Ellis Williams of Amarillo, Elder Harry Williams and wife Ella of Amarillo, Billy D. Williams of Denver, Colo., Dwight Williams of Amarillo, and Elder Roy S. Williams, Sr., and wife Barbara of Clarendon; three step children, Sunni Wallace of Pampa, Delana of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Parnell Jackson of Pampa; 61 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, family, and friends.
The family requests memorials be to the Community Care Center of Clarendon, PO Box 1007, Clarendon, Texas 79226