RALPH B. WILLIAMS

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Ralph Bonnie Williams of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. Martin Lucas will officiate, with burial in Anniston Cemetery near Anniston.

Williams, 75, died Wednesday, May 24, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born March 18, 1920, in Dorena, son of Arthur and Nancy Celina Brown. He and Mildred Louise Ledbetter were married in 1941. She died in 1956.

Williams was a retired timber worker.

Survivors include three sons, Bonnie Williams of Anniston, Daryl Williams of Commerce, Donald Williams of Sikeston; a daughter, Connie Carlyle of Commerce; 10 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four sisters, a brother and a grandson.