Submitted by

Theresa Carhart

 

 

 

 

Bryan-College Station Eagle

Bryan, Texas

June 14, 2004

Reuben ‘Blaine’ Williams
January 5, 1925 — June 10, 2004

     MARLIN — Services for Reuben “Blaine” Williams, 79, of Hammond are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Adams Funeral Chapel in Marlin.

     Burial will be in Mustang Prairie Cemetery near Kosse.

     Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

     Mr. Williams died Thursday in Temple.

     He was born in Mustang Prairie and graduated from Kosse High School in 1942. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Mustang and was the last surviving member of that church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a member of the Hearne Veterans of Foreign Wars post. He drilled oil and water wells and retired from Layne Western Water Wells in 1985.

     He was preceded in death by a son, Ronald B. Williams; and a daughter, Shirley Ann Williams.

     Survivors include four daughters and two sons-in-law, Jeanne and Antone Wierzbicki Jr. and Cheryl Williams, all of Bremond, Cathy and T. J. Earhart of Alvin and Sammy Winstead of Hearne; two sons and three daughters-in-law, Rick B. and Barbara Williams of Katy, Johnny and Yvonne Williams of Kosse and Betty Kwiatkowski of Bremond; two sisters, Katherine Williams of Waco and Audrey Streetman of Oklahoma City; the mother of his children, Ann P. Meadors and her husband, Kenneth, of Hearne; 15 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Memorials may be made to the:

Mustang Prairie Cemetery Association

C/O First State Bank

P.O. Box 7

Bremond, Texas 76629