Martha Williams

Martha Corene Lovett Williams began her story on this planet as the tenth and last child of Martin Luther and Queen Victoria Waldie Lovett, on June 23, 1935, in Nocona, Texas.

She attended Nocona High School where she was a straight A student with perfect attendance. On February 2, 1951, she met a young airman who was stationed at Sheppard Air Force near Wichita Falls. Love was instantaneous for both of them and they became Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Williams on the day after Christmas, December 26, 1951.

Their first child, Vickie, was born in Wichita Falls when Corene was a mere seventeen. Over the next six years Helen, Mark and Carolyn joined the family. Eventually, God led Wayne and Corene to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where they lived and worked from 1962 till 1994.

During their retirement years, they have lived in Kansas: in Eureka and in Olathe.

Corene, young though she was when she began, set an exceptional example as a wife and as a mother. She became an excellent cook, an outstanding hostess in her home, a wonderful seamstress, and a marvelous Bible school teacher for second-graders. Corene was a life-long member of the Church of Christ and she and Wayne were active in every congregation they joined.

She will be incredibly missed by her husband, her children and children-in-law, her twelve grandchildren and their spouses, and by her twenty-three great-grandchildren!

Corene battled Parkinson's disease for 26 years and made her final journey to heaven on February 26, 2017. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.





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