Moses Williams Obituary (1919

Services for Moses Williams are 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at the Brumley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Eugene Wilson and Rev. Melvin Gaines officiating. Wake service/visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Monday, September 7, 2015 at the Brumley Chapel in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Burial will be at the Williams Cemetery, east of Eagletown, Oklahoma. Mr. Williams, 96, died peacefully at his home early Friday morning, September 4, 2015. He was born February 18, 1919 in Kullituklo, Oklahoma to Harvey Williams and Fannie Battiest Wesley. He was an enrolled full-blood with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He attended Jones Academy in Hartshorne, Oklahoma and Goodland Indian School in Hugo, Oklahoma. He was employed with Dierks Lumber Company, which later became Weyerhaeuser in Wright City, where he made his home until his retirement. After retirement he moved to Eagletown, Oklahoma. He enjoyed watching football and basketball, loved fishing and also watching his grandkids play sports. In 2000, he received the Outstanding Choctaw Nation Senior Citizen plaque. He was and Elder and a member of the Mt. Fork Presbyterian Church where he taught Choctaw Bible class. He was one of the founders of the 5th Sunday Choctaw Singing Class, started at St. Matthew and continues to this day. He married Helen Edith Bohanan on February 8, 1942 at St. Matthew Presbyterian Church, Broken Bow, OK. Survivors include three daughters; Wanda and husband R.J. Frazier, June Williams of Eagletown and Patricia Gaines and husband Rev. Melvin Gaines of Midwest City, Oklahoma; sisters, Norma and husband Andy Choate, of Finley, Oklahoma, Lou Billy, of Finley, Oklahoma, and sister-in-law, Mary Williams; and brother, John Dixon Williams, of Texas. He has thirteen grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Helen Williams; daughter, Joann Dalby; grandson, Jerald Carney, Jr.; three sisters, Elsie Battiest, Laura Willie, Edna Gibson; and one brother, Harvey Williams, Jr. Wake Brumley Funeral Home Chapel Monday, September 07, 2015 06:00 AM - 08:00 AM Email Details 500 N. Park Dr.Broken Bow, OK 74728 Directions Funeral Brumley Funeral Home Chapel Tuesday, September 08, 2015 02:00 AM Email Details 500 N. Park Dr.Broken Bow, OK 74728 Burial will be at the Williams Cemetery, east of Eagletown, Oklahoma. Directions To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Moses Williams, please visit our floral store.