Debra"Debbie" Jean Williams

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
Back in Time
1973 Twenty Five Years Ago
Published April 29, 1998

Debbie Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Williams of Hemphill, was co-salutatorian of Hemphill High School

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Notes:

The Sabine County Reporter
December 20, 1995, Page 10

Rushing Williams

James Rushing Williams, 68, of Milam died at 11:05 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, 1995, at Hemphill Care Center.

A longtime resident of the Milam area, he was born April 14, 1927, in Shelby County as son of the late James William and Nancy (Hatton) Williams. Williams, a U. S. Army veteran of World War II, was a retired millwright at Temple-Inland Pineland Operations and a member of Camp Springs Baptist Church.

Survivors: wife, Hattie Williams of Milam; two daughters, Brenda Horton of Hemphill and Debbie Smith of Jasper; two sons, Ronnie Williams of Milam and Jimbo Williams of Center; 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro. W. Clarence Howell and Bro. Vance R. Purtell officiating. Interment was at Gravelhill Cemetery in Sabine County.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, June 2009)

James married Hattie Jean McCauley on 22 Feb 1946 in Shelby County, Texas. Hattie was born on 9 Dec 1930 in Texas; died on 22 Dec 2013 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hattie Jean Williams, 83, died Sunday afternoon in the San Augustine Hospital, San Augustine, Texas. She was born in Center, Texas, to Robert and Iris Bland McCauley. Hattie has lived her life in Milam, Texas, and was a devoted mother and grandmother to her children.

She is survived by her sons; Ronnie Williams of Brookeland and Jimbo Williams of Pineland, her daughters; Brenda Horton of Hemphill and Lori Williams of Montana, eleven grandchildren and numerous great and great-great grandchildren. She is also survived by her brothers; W.H. McCauley of Nacogdoches, Kenneth, Travis, and Jack McCauley all of San Augustine, Larry McCauley of Melrose, Texas, her sisters; Bobbie Jackson of Houston, Audrey Wells and Betty Loggins both of San Augustine, Texas.

Visitation will be from 5:00PM until 8:00PM, Wednesday, December 25, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2:00PM, Thursday, December 26, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Gravelhill Cemetery near Hemphill.

Copied from Starr Funeral Home online
Print edition in The Sabine County Reporter, January 1, 2014, page 12