Donna Lee STILLEY WILLIAMS

Truett
April 2, 1923 - March 1, 2006

Donna
July 4, 1924 - April 5, 2015

*Obituary

CLARKSVILLE -- Truett A. Williams, 82, of Knoxville died Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at Johnson Regional Medical Center.
Born April 2, 1923, at Knoxville, he was the son of the late Henry Alfred and Mary Belle Wallace Williams, an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II and a member of Knoxville First Baptist Church. He was a Mason for 60 years and a member of Knoxville Masonic Lodge 370.
Survivors include his wife, Donna Stilley Williams; sons, Terry A. Williams of Tulsa, Okla., and Timothy B. Williams and spouse, Anissa, of London; a daughter, Rebecca Phillips and spouse, Kenneth Dale, of Russellville; a sister, Emma Sue Karstetter of Fayetteville; and grandchildren, Candace Nicole Williams and Katelyn Alexandra Williams of London, and Jessica Phillips of Norwich, England.
Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Knoxville Cemetery. Burial will be by Hardwicke Funeral Service.

*Obituary

Donna Lee Williams, 90, of Knoxville passed away Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015, at Conway Healthcare and Rehab Center in Conway, Arkansas, where she had been a resident since July 2013.

She was born Donna Lee Stilley on July 4th,
1924, in Knoxville to the late Fred Frank and Audie McPherson Stilley. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1930, where Donna graduated from Moore High School in 1942. During the Second World War, Donna was employed as a Civil Servant in the War Department in Washington, D.C., working in the Pentagon. After the War, Donna returned to Oklahoma, where she worked in insurance and where in 1945, her first child, daughter Rebecca Jane, was born. In 1954, Donna married childhood acquaintance and eventual husband of 52 years, Truett Alfred Williams, of Knoxville in Greenland, Arkansas, where the couple then made their home in Muskogee and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Following the birth of their two sons, they returned to Arkansas in 1962, making their home in Clarksville until 1980, whereupon they returned to Knoxville. After returning to Arkansas, Donna worked as a teacher's aide at Hurie Elementary School in Clarksville, and afterwards, spent the next twenty years as a receptionist for Dr. James Monroe Kolb, Jr. in Clarksville and Russellville. She had been retired since 1991.

Donna was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Truett; her brother, W.T. “Bud” Stilley of Dallas, Texas; and one granddaughter, Jessica Lee Phillips of Russellville.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca Jane
Phillips and Kenneth Dale Phillips of Russellville; her son, Terry Allen Williams of Wichita, Kansas; her son and daughter-in-law, Timothy Brian Williams and Anissa Michelle Williams of London, Arkansas; two granddaughters: Candace Nicole Williams and Katelyn Alexandra Williams of London; and veritable legions of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

She will be remembered for her perpetual willingness to help others, her tireless devotion to her family, and the literally hundreds of cross-stitch pictures she made for all and sundry over a period of three decades.

There will be an open visitation at Hardwicke Funeral Home in Clarksville, Arkansas.

Graveside services will be held 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 8, 2015, at Knoxville Cemetery with Brother Richard
Snyder of the Knoxville First Baptist Church officiating.
Arrangements areby Hardwicke Funeral Home of Clarksville.

Contributed on 10/22/21 by Barwickbillsully060
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