Laura D. Szweda Williams

(Asbury Park Press)

LAURA D. SZWEDA WILLIAMS
AGE: 97 JACKSON
Laura D. Szweda Williams, 97, of Clementon, passed away peacefully Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, at the Care One of Jackson. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Anna Drzewucka from West Virginia who moved to Philadelphia, Pa., where Laura was born April 1, 1911. She had been spent her early years in Camden and had been a longtime resident of Audubon. She was a parishioner of St. Rose of Lima Church, Haddon Heights and later St. Agnes Church, Blackwood. Laura worked as comptometer operator for Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia for 20 years and loved to line dance, travel, read and bowl. She had been a member of the Golden Slippers in Gloucester Twp. and the Audubon Young at Heart.
Mrs. Williams is the wife of the late Frank Williams and is the mother of Sister Barbara Williams, RSM, President Emerita of Georgian Court University, Lakewood. She had been predeceased by her son and his family, Ronald Sr., his wife Annette and tragically Ronald Jr. She had also been predeceased by her siblings, Stephen and Frank Drzewucki, Marie Cybulski, and Josephine Burke.
Relatives and friends are invited to join the family to remember and pay tribute to Laura from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2009 at Henry Funeral Home, 152 W. Atlantic Ave., Audubon and 10:30 and 11 a.m. Monday, March 2, 2009 at the church. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Agnes Church, 701 Little Gloucester Road, Blackwood. Interment and graveside tribute will willow at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Blackwood-Chews Landing.