Kathleen Laverne “Doll” (Davis) Williams, 87, of Celeste passed away December 4, 2013 at the Hinton Home in Farmersville. Services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Veronica Greanead officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from Noon until service time Tuesday at the funeral home.
Born July 16, 1926 in Celeste, Kathleen Laverne was the daughter of Elcy T. “Dode” and Buena Mildred (Friddle) Davis. On January 25, 1963 in Greenville, she married Charlie Joe Williams. She retired from E-Systems in 1984, and she was a member of Westview United Methodist Church.
Her survivors include her sons Ronald Connatser of Mineola, Michael Williams and wife Connie of Buena Vista, Colorado and David Williams and wife Kathy of No. Richland Hills; grandchildren Rebecca Huton, Nathan Connatser, Jeremiah Joe Williams, Cerissa Arrington, Megan Arrington, and David Palmer; great-grandchildren Abby and Heather Huton, Jayden Arrington and Preston Arrington; and sisters Ardythe McGee of Leonard, Wilma Owens and husband, Bill of Mineola, and Nelda Williams of Caddo Mills.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brothers Glenn and Dale Davis, sister Gladys Atkisson and a sister Lawrene Sumrow who was killed in WWII.