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Show Prominent Kanarra Resident Succumbs To Long Illness & O I L I Well? A. Williams, 52, prominent promin-ent Iron county church and civic worker and former member of Iron County Board of Education, died at his home in Kanarra early ear-ly Friday morning, following a long Illness aggravated by injuries in-juries sustained during World War I. Mr. Williams was born in Kanarra on December 15, 1895, a son of Reese J. and Martha M. Davis Williams. Here attended public schools at Kanarra and graduated from the old Branch Normal school at Cedar City. He retired last December from the Iron county school board after af-ter serving a five-year term. An active church worker, Mr. Williams had served as Bishop of the Kanarra Ward of the LDS church, and for many years was a member of the Parowan Stake high council. He had also been active in Boy Scout work in the Cedar Breaks District, and worked work-ed with the M Men and as a stake missionary. During World War I he served in five major campaigns with the 91st division. He was attached attach-ed to the 446th machine gun battalion bat-talion and was overseas for 19 months. On December 18, 1923, he married mar-ried Ethna Williams of Kanarra Kanar-ra in the St. George Temple, who survives him. Also surviving are eight sons and daughters, Barbara Williams, Wil-liams, Mrs. Beverly Pollock, Rowan, Row-an, Gary, Rosemary, Lauralle, Verda and David Williams, all of Kanarra; nine brothers and sisters, Mrs. Martha J. Williams, Mrs. Myra Ford, John Henry and Junius F. Williams, Kanarra-Reese Kanarra-Reese J. Williams, Jr., Provo; Mrs. Bell Prince and Kumen D. Williams, St. George; Mrs. Julia Wilkinson, and Mrs. Effa Mulliner Mul-liner Parker, Cedar City. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Tuesday afternoon in the Kanarra Ward Chapel, and burial bur-ial was made in Kanarra cemetery. |
