ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Saturday, September 7, 1996            TAG: 9609090049
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-3  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: NEWS OBIT 

SISTER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DEAD AT 86

Rose Williams, Tennessee Williams' sister, who was the model for Laura Wingfield, the shy, lame young woman in ``The Glass Menagerie,'' died Thursday at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, N.Y. She was 86, and had moved to the hospital from the Bethel Methodist Home in Ossining, N.Y. The cause was cardiac arrest, said Michael Remer, a lawyer for the Tennessee Williams trust.

Rose Williams was immortalized in fictional guise in her brother's work, first in his short story, ``Portrait of a Girl in Glass.''

- The New York Times

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