Sarah Elizabeth (Libby) Crooks
Death caused by air emboli while scuba diving.
Obituary as follows:
Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 31, 2004
Bessie Marie Williams
ESTELLINE - Bessie Marie Williams, 96, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Hughs Funeral Home Memorial Chapel in Memphis with the Rev. Dewayne Wolf officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Memphis.
Mrs. Williams was born Nov. 2, 1907, in Milburn, Okla. She married William Edgar Williams on April 28, 1923, in Tishomingo, Okla.
Survivors include a son, Fred Williams of Amarillo; four daughters, Molly Williams of Truth or Consequences, N.M., Lorna Maddox of Turpin, Okla., Donna Sparks of Childress and Edrena Bucklew of Mayflower, Ark.; 16 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to a favorite charity.
Willis George Carlton Williams
Donna Williams Sparks, my mother, stated that only a few years earlier (about 2000) her mother, Bessie Gallant Williams, told her of loosing her first child. This was the first my mother or any of her sisters had heard of this child. The child was buried in Tishomingo, OK. I do not yet know which cemetery. Bessie state the baby died while sleeping with her one night. She feared she smothered the baby, thus she never talked about it.