HENNESSEY
The funeral for Margie Faye Williams will be at 2:00 PM Saturday, December 18, 2021, at Union Chapel Church officiated by Jimmy Berkenbile. Burial will follow at Lyon Valley Cemetery under the direction of Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home.
Margie was born in Leedy on January 21, 1936. She enjoyed the love and comfort of her parents Ephriam and Murial Williams of Hennessey, Oklahoma. She was blessed with loving grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins and the first nineteen years of her life on a farm east of Hennessey.
At the age of thirteen, Margie made a profession of faith during a service at Union Chapel Church. She was later baptized at the age of sixteen at Bible Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma.
Margie attended College Corner School in her elementary years and graduated from Hennessey High School in 1955. She moved to Oklahoma City in 1956 and worked in the Photo Finishing industry until her retirement in 1998 at the age of sixty-two.
Margie claimed the promises in the Word of God, Hebrews 13:5 “For He Himself hath said, I will never leave or forsake you.” And Psalms 17:15, “As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake, with Thy likeness.”
Margie loved and prayed for all the children in the family. Her greatest desire was for all the family to receive the Lord and live their lives for the Lord.
Margie was preceded in death by her parents.
Margie enjoyed the love of her extended family which included five very special Kious cousins and their families. Of these cousins, Billy Joe Kious, Leona Kious Long, and Peggy Kious Cuthbertson have all preceded her in death. She is survived by their families and by her cousin Myrna Kious Hershberger of Girard, Kansas, and her family and Linda Kious Hodgden of Kingston, Oklahoma, and her family in Oklahoma City.
Margie’s five cousins in the Williams family, Billy Terry, Wilburn Terry, Hollis Kehlbeck, Leona Lloyd, and Warren Shader have preceded her in death
.Margie was always aware that she was adopted by her parents when she was six weeks of age. As an adult, Margie located several members of her birth family and developed a loving relationship that she maintained through the remainder of her life.
Of her birth family, Margie is preceded in death by Betty Fogle and Ruby Harrison. She is survived by brother Don Yarbrough of Oklahoma City and his family, her sister Jane Howell of Madill, Oklahoma, and her cousin and prayer partner Teresa Evans of Blanchard, Oklahoma, and her family.
Margie also leaves behind her prayer partner, Amy Luff of Tennessee.
