SHIRLEY H. WILLIAMS


LOUISBURG - Shirley Jean Hawkins Williams, 75, died Sunday, Oct 16, 2016, at Wake Med in Raleigh. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Haywood Baptist Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

She was born in Vance County to Plummer Hawkins and Effie Lee Solomon Hawkins

Surviving: daughters, Jacqueline Johnson of Willingboro, N.J., and Denise Thompson of Summerville, S.C.; son, Darrell Nicholson of Greensboro; sister, Chesteen Strickland of Orange, N.J.; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in the Davis-Royster Funeral Service chapel and at the church prior to the service. The family is receiving friends at the residence.

Arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service, Henderson.