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Chesley Howard "Rass" Williams

19 May 1906 – 23 Oct 1967

Birth	19 May 1906
Death	23 Oct 1967
Cemetery	Riverview Cemetery Brawley , Imperial County , California , USA
Added by	Chuck O Fortune on 16 Dec 2017
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7372113

Bio

A TRIBUTE published in the pages of IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS El Centro, California October 25, 1967 Memorial Obituary Entered Into Eternal Rest Monday, Oct. 23, 1967 Funeral services for Chesley H. Williams, 61, Brawley resident for 36 years, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Frye Chapel, Brawley. Interment will be in Riverview Cemetery. Williams died of pneumonia Monday at 4:30 p.m. in an El Centro hospital where he had been a patient for 11 days. He was born in Whitney, Tex., May 19, 1906, and came to Brawley from Whitney in 1939. He was employed in agriculture as a tractor driver. His wife, Fay Vola, died in Brawley in 1954. Williams had been in ill health for the past two years and had resided with relatives in El Centro during that time. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Glenda Culkins and Mrs. Paula Price, both of El Centro; two sons, Howard of El Centro and Donald of Santa Barbara; five grandchildren; four sister, including Mrs. Hazel Shelley of Brawley, and three brothers.

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Family

Parents

• John Wesley Williams 1868–1961
• Fleeta Serena Fields Williams 1875–1918

Spouse

• Faye Vola Porter Williams 1910–1954

Siblings

• Ethel Williams 1893–1894
• Johnnie Edith Williams Shelley 1895–1960
• Hazel Gertrude Williams Shelley 1896–1984
• Dewey Elbert Williams 1898–1918
• Mae Annie Williams Cooper 1900–1996
• Oscar Alston Williams 1902–1918
• Wessie Odell Williams Copeland 1904–1948
• Belva Pauline Williams Gardner 1908–1994
• Sherrell Wayne Williams 1912–2002
• Nelma Norene Williams Golden 1914–2006

Children

• Glenda Gayle Williams Sherlock 1932–2016
• Joe Wesley Williams 1935–1951
• Donald Ray Williams 1940–2012

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