Independent Enterprise
Thursday, April 30, 1981
PAYETTE - Services for Bessie Belle Williams, 82, Payette, who died Saturday in a Payette nursing home, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, Payette, by the Rev. Ralph Lawrence of the First United Methodist Church, Payette. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Payette.
She was born Aug 30, 1898, in Troy, to George and Barbara Oglesby. She was reared and educated in Moscow and Lewiston. She married Frank Wheeler in 1918 in Payette. He died in 1921, she married W.J.T. Williams on Nov. 3, 1926, in Payette. He died in 1959.
Survivors include two sons, W.J.T. Williams Jr. of Klamath Falls, Ore., and Robert Williams of Port Orchard, Wash.; five daughters, Mrs. George W. (Mickey) Pratt of Folsom, Calif., Mrs. Earl (Edith) Fellows of Grangeville, Mrs. Clair (Betty) Teel of Payette, Mrs. Walter (Barbara) Wolf of Mishawaka, Ind., and Mrs. Ron (Bea) Pierce of Boise; a brother, John Oglesby of Salt Lake City; a sister, Nola Green of Payette; 30 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by six brothers and a grandson.
