Emma Williams

Published 5:00 am Thursday, May 31, 2007

Services for Emma Williams, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m. Saturday,June 2, at Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church in Brookhaven withburial in the church cemetery. R.E. Tyler Funeral Home is in chargeof arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m. at the funeral home,with family present from 6 until 7 p.m.

Mrs. Williams, 81, died May 26, 2007, at Brook Manor NursingCenter in Brookhaven. She was born in Lincoln County on Dec. 16,1925, to Felix Dillon and Annie Huff Dillon.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Greenwood M.B.Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, BenjaminWilliams Sr.; her daughter, Mary Washington; her brothers, FredLee, S.I. and Felo Dillon; her sisters, Helen Speights and LoreneDickey; her daughter-in-law; and two granddaughters.

Survivors are her sons, Benjamin Williams Jr., Henry Williamsand David Williams, all of Brookhaven; her daughter, Linda Lyles,of Merced, Calif.; her sister, Annie Bell Madison, of Los Angeles,Calif.; her 15 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; and a host ofnieces and nephews.