OKA LEE WILLIAMS
1895-1953
  
Services At Red Bush For State Road Foreman
  
Oka L. Williams, 58, Red Bush, a foreman of the State Highway
Department, died in a Huntington hospital at 5:00 a. m. Sunday,
September 13. He had been in ill health for about one year, but his
death was unexpected.
   
Mr. Williams was a member of a prominent Johnson County family. He
was a son of the lare Marcus K. and Missouri Webb Williams, and was
born on April 20, 1895. He had been affiliated with the Flat Gap
Masonic Lodge for more than 25 years.
   
Surviving are his wife, Virgie Blanton Williams, three daughters,
Mrs. Rdna Mae Scott, Laramie, Wyoming, Mrs. Ilene Bailey, New
Boston, O., Miss Floine Williams, Red Bush; one brother, Virgil
Williams, Red Bush, aand two sisters, Mrs. George T. Turner,
Sciotoville, Ohio and Mrs. W. W. Lowder, Idaho, Ohio.
   
Funeral services were held at 10:00 a. m. today at the family
residence be Elders Lonza Reed and T. J. Bailey.
  
Burial was made in the family cemetery at Red Bush under the
direction of the Jones Funeral Home.
   
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
September 16, 1953
  
  
OKA L. WILLIAMS
DEPARTS THIS LIFE
  
Oka L. Willisms, was born April 20, 1895, and departed this life
September 13, 1953, age 58 years, 4 months, and 23 days.
  
He was the son of Marcus and Missouri Webb Williams. He was marred
to Virgie Blanton, May 29, 1920.  To this union were born three
children, Mrs. Edna Mae Scott of Laramie, Wyoming, Mrs. Illene
Bailey of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Floine, at home.  Besides his wife
and three children, he is survived by one brother, Virgil Williams,
of Red Bush and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Turner of Sciotoville, Ohio,
Mrs. Mae Lowder of Idaho, Ohio, and a host of other relatives and
friends.
  
He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Flat Gap Masonic
Lodge. He had been in ill health for almost a year, but bore his
suffering with Christian patience, and we are assured from the
testimony he left a short time before death that his suffering is
over and his soul is sweetly resting in the paradise of God.
  
Paintsville Herald
9-23-1953
    
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