by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: FRIDAY, April 9, 1993 TAG: 9304090370 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: BEDFORD LENGTH: Medium
OBIT-WILLIAMS, FLORA HALE
WILLIAMS, Flora Hale, 94, of Bedford, passed away Wednesday, April 7, 1993 in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital. She was formerly of Route 6, Bedford, and was born November 27, 1898 in Floyd County, a daughter of the late George Washington Hale and Emma Kansas Turner Hale. She was preceded in death by her husband, Issac Carter Williams, who owned and operated Joppa Mills. She was a homemaker for most of her life, a loving, devoted and loyal wife and a loving, caring mother and grandmother to her family. She was a member of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. She is survived by five daughters and sons-in-law, Madeline W. and Harry Caldwell, Mary Jane and R. F. ("Dick") Teass Jr., all of Roanoke, Ms. Emma Catherine Overstreet, Bedford, Elizabeth Ann ("Becky") Irvine, Suffern, N.Y., Frances M. and T. H. McLaughlin, Moneta; four sons and daughters-in-law, Edgar Lee and Edith Williams, Chesapeake, Carl Allen and Shirley Williams, Carter H. Williams, all of Bedford, Charles E. and Carolyn Williams, Moneta; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Annie H. and Murphy Thompson, Glada H. and Doris Bower, all of Floyd, Ilene H. Clifton, Meadows of Dan; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Willie and Etoil Hale, Dayton, Ohio, Herbert and Bea Hale, Roanoke, Irvin and Pauline Hale, Vinton, Warren and Pauline Hale, Floyd; five sisters-in-law, Arlene W. Blackwell, Eula Belle Martin, Elzada Boothe, all of Floyd, Flora V. Williams, Roanoke, Nannie S. Williams, Rocky Mount; 27 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren, ten great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, April 10, 1993 at 11 a.m. from the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, by the Rev. John Buck and Rev. Joe Prince. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home, Bedford, and other times at the homeplace, Joppa, home of Carl and Shirley Williams. The family requests that those wishing to make memorials consider the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Building Fund or the Bedford Life Saving Crew. Arrangements are being handled by Updike Funeral Home, Bedford.