Martin and Grace WILLIAMS

Wedding portrait. Martin and Grace (Anderson) WILLIAMS (30 Jun 1923). Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

Obituary: Grace (Anderson) WILLIAMS

Obituary. Grace (Anderson) WILLIAMS (1902-1953). Image courtesy of Verla Williams.

Rites To Be Held For Mrs. Martin Williams Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Martin Williams, 50, will be held Jan. 24, at 1:30 at Steine's funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the First Lutheran church in Decorah. Burial will be in the Lutheran cemetery, Rev. R. A. Ofstedal officiating.

Mrs. Williams died Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 21, at the Decorah hospital. She suffered a stroke January 13.

The pallbearers were Spencer Williams, Gerhard Anderson, Percy and Jesse Wepler, Ervin Williams and Alton Nelson. Members of the floral committee were Mrs. Peter Diederich, Mrs. Robert Koepp and Miss Ardath Nelson.

Mrs. Williams was born August 2, 1902, in Howard county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Anderson. She moved to Decorah in 1923.

On June 30, 1923, she was married at the Lutheran parsonage in Decorah by Rev. I. B. Torrison to Martin Williams, who survives. They were the parents of three children: Merlin G. Williams and Mrs. Jim (Loraine) Steine, both of Decorah; and Mrs. Carl (Gretchen) Leuenberger of Ft. Atkinson.

Besides her husband and children she is survived by five grandchildren: Roy Anderson of Decorah, Robert Anderson of Phoenix, Ariz., and Gordon Anderson, also of Phoenix, Ariz.; and two sisters, Mrs. Gail Schneider who lives in Wisconsin, and Mrs. Max Elder of De Queen, Ark.