Alice Carolyn Nichols Williams 1929-2024

Posted Thursday, February 8, 2024 8:21 am

Services for Alice Carolyn Nichols Williams, 94, of Quitman were held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 at Wilson-Bartley Funeral Home, Alba, with Bro. Joey Williams officiating.

Interment was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Alba.

Mrs. Williams passed away Jan. 29, 2024 in Quitman. She was born June 24, 1929 in Jefferson to William Cornelius and Nona Rae Dorgan Nichols. She married Ferris Ewing Williams in Hughes Springs on July 9, 1946. Carolyn had lived in the Alba area for the last 40 years and was a member of Lake Fork Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of 56 years, Ferris Williams; daughter, Dotty Jones; son, Max Williams; and two grandsons, Dustin Williams and Chris Owens.

Survivors include her two sons, Ron Williams and wife Donna of Granbury, and Jimmy Williams and wife Donna of Longview; daughter, Carla Milliken of Jefferson; brother, Carl Nichols of Hughes Springs; two sisters, Jo Black and Lyvonne Hightower of Hughes Springs; daughter-in-law, Debbie Williams of Hughes Springs; 10 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.

The family received friends from 1-2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

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