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John Wesley Williams

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John Wesley Williams

Birth
Farmer City, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA
Death
25 Nov 1967 (aged 77)
Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for J. Wesley Williams, 77, Kokomo R R 2 will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Fenn Funeral Home with the Rev. Leon Lacoax officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home at any time.
Mr. Williams was killed Saturday afternoon in a cornpicker accident on his farm northwest of town.
Born Dec. 3, 1889, in Farmer City, Ill., he was the son of Davis and Ettie (Hopkins) Williams. He had lived in Howard County most of his life and was a member of Shiloh Methodist Church.
On Feb. 28, 1912 he was married to Lora Parkhurst who survives with two daughters, Mrs. M Harry (Winifred) Jackson of Kokomo and Mrs. Harold (Karlene) Henry of Huntington County; Carl Erisman, Russiaville R R 2 who was raised in the home.
Also seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Fern McCoy, Kokomo; a brother, Vade Williams, Kokomo R R 2 and several nieces and nephews. One brother and one granddaughter are deceased.

(Source: Kokomo Tribune, Monday, Nov. 27, 1967)
Funeral services for J. Wesley Williams, 77, Kokomo R R 2 will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Fenn Funeral Home with the Rev. Leon Lacoax officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home at any time.
Mr. Williams was killed Saturday afternoon in a cornpicker accident on his farm northwest of town.
Born Dec. 3, 1889, in Farmer City, Ill., he was the son of Davis and Ettie (Hopkins) Williams. He had lived in Howard County most of his life and was a member of Shiloh Methodist Church.
On Feb. 28, 1912 he was married to Lora Parkhurst who survives with two daughters, Mrs. M Harry (Winifred) Jackson of Kokomo and Mrs. Harold (Karlene) Henry of Huntington County; Carl Erisman, Russiaville R R 2 who was raised in the home.
Also seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Fern McCoy, Kokomo; a brother, Vade Williams, Kokomo R R 2 and several nieces and nephews. One brother and one granddaughter are deceased.

(Source: Kokomo Tribune, Monday, Nov. 27, 1967)


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