Obituary of Sallie Mae Gilbert Williams -- 2007

Contributed by Jeanette Corcoran

Transcribed by Glenn Fields





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Sallie Mae Gilbert Williams Obituary



Sallie Mae Gilbert Williams

Kinston—Sallie Mae Gilbert Williams, 89, of 3200 Hwy 58 South died Tuesday, 
February 27, 2007, at her home.  She was a homemaker and a member of Lanie’s 
Chapel Church where she served as secretary for over 20 years.  Her love of her 
garden and the farm land would find her on her lawnmower most of the time.  
She was preceded in death by her parents, William Nathan and Carrie Dail Gilbert 
and by the love of her life, her husband of over 57 years, Milton Roscoe Williams, 
had she known the love they shared she would have married him sooner.  Funeral 
services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, March 1, 2007, from the chapel of Garner 
Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Roberts officiating.  Entombment will follow in  
Pinelawn Memorial Park.  Survivors include her daughter, Jeanette Williams Corcoran 
whom was preceded in death by her husband, Tom; her children, Jennifer Corcoran 
Coss and husband, Steve of Charlotte, William Clayton Corcoran and wife, Edna of 
Canton, Mich., Father Thomas Kevin Corcoran of Hawthorn, N. J., Karen Corcoran 
Christensen and husband John, of Centennial, Colo., and Christian Williams Corcoran 
of Charlotte; her son, M. R. Williams, II and wife, Teena of Kinston, and sons, Trey 
Williams and Colin Ocello and wife, Tara; her great-grandchildren, Lucas, Kevin and 
Erin Coss; Nicholas and Christopher Corcoran, Nate and Anna Christensen, Kendall,
Jacob and Lauren Ocello.  The family will receive friends from 7-9 p. m. on Wednesday 
evening at the funeral home and other times at her home.  A special thanks to Dr. Hubert 
Pierce, special aides and Chuck Skelton of 3HC Hospice, and her personal caregivers, 
Vivian Moore and Gertrude Jackson.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to 
Lanie’s Chapel Church, in care of Peggy Taylor, 5333 Highway 58 North, Kinston, NC 
28501.  (Paid obituary)



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