Mrs. Anna M. Williams
Mrs. Anna Mae Williams, 61, wife of John Albert Williams, of Dalmatia, R.D., died last Friday at 3:15 p.m., in the Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, after an illness of several weeks.
Mrs. Williams was a daughter of the late Jacob M. Phillips Sr., and Magdalena [Witmer] Phillips, and was born in Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, on 30 August 1889.
She was an active member of Zion’s Lutheran and Reformed Church, Hickory Corners, in her younger days. Mrs. Williams was publisher of the Pillow Gazette, a weekly publication, at Pillow, from 1929-1943.
She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, John Albert Williams; two sons, Harry Elwood WIlliams, a pre-theological student for the Reformed ministry and a sophomore at Ursinus Colege, Collegeville, and Clarence Elmer Williams, a junior in the Mahanoy Joint High Schools at Dalmatia; two step-daughters, Mrs. Henry Warmkessel, nee Mae Williams, Landingville, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Robert Freeman, nee Thea Williams, Tremont; four brothers, Harry F. Phillips, Dalmatia, R.D.; Fred A. Phillips and Jacob M. Phillips, of Pillow, and Dr. Clarence Phillips, Sunbury; three sisters, Mrs. John Bingaman, Gratz; Mrs. Elmer Schlegel, Urban, and Mrs. Charles Martz, Dalmatia, R.D. 1.
Funeral services were conducted at the Reed Funeral Home, Pillow, Wednesday at 2 p.m., and at the Stone Valley Lutheran and Reformed Church, Hickory Corners, at 3 p.m., the Rev. Walter E. Wagner, Lutheran pastor, officiating with the Rev. R. T. Shellhase, Reformed pastor assisting. Interment was made in the Stone Valley Cemetery.
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From a local newspaper at the time of her death.
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