Doris Glenn Williams

Doris Glenn Williams, 73, retired childcare provider of more than 25 years, died at home on Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland. Services are 10 a.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel. Graveside services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday in the Odd Fellow's Rest Cemetery in Aberdeen. The family will receive friends beginning at 12 noon Saturday at Tisdale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home in Aberdeen.
She was a native of Monroe County before moving to Jackson in 1969. She was an active member of Broadmoor Baptist Church of Madison and very active in her Sunday school class. She also shared her time at Ridgecrest Baptist Church on Wednesday and Sunday nights keeping children along with working Mom's Day Out at Broadmoor. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She never missed a ballgame or activity that her children or grandchildren were involved with whether it be in town or out of town.
On August 30, 1973, she chaired the organization of EANGUS (Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States) Auxiliary with 44 ladies representing 16 states. The meeting was held at the Hotel Des Moines in Des Moines, Iowa. Doris served as the vice president and was elected president in October 1974 and served for two years. Doris also helped write the Constitution and Bylaws for the EANGUS Auxiliary. She was awarded the first EANGUS award - "The Pen is Mightier Than The Musket" for her work with the legislative work and she has continued to be active in the legislative work. In 1976, Doris was appointed the cookbook chairman. Doris had been a permanent member of the Virgil R. Williams Scholarship Program since 1983. Doris has served as chairman of the EANGUS Auxiliary Scholarship Program since 1994. She was honored by EANGUS in 2003 by having an Auxiliary Room in the EANGUS Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia named the "Doris Williams Auxiliary Office".
In 1969 Doris Williams chaired a committee of 66 members to organize the Mississippi National Guard Noncommissioned Officers Association Auxiliary (MS NG NCOA Auxiliary). In 1969 Doris was elected as vice president and in 1971 was elected as president.
Doris served numerous times as area director and was currently serving as an area director. Doris served on the Awards Evaluation and Research Committee. She also had served as conference chairman and also chairman of the MS NG NCOA Auxiliary Scholarship Program. Doris worked many hours at the Mississippi State Fair helping with the MS NG NCO Association Ways and Means Project. In 1978-1979, Doris also won the NCO Wife of the Year presented by the MS NG NCO Association.
Preceeded in death by her husband, Virgil R. Williams; brother, Edwin Glenn; and sister, Faye Montgomery.
Survivors include: son, Glen Williams and his wife Denise of Madison; daughter, Sharon Williams Brannon and her husband Ricky of Ft. Gaines, Ga.; daughter, Tricia Williams Kirtley and her husband David of Brandon; grandchildren, Brittney, Bryce and Brayden Williams, James Griffin, Brandi, Kari, and Bobby Black, Cody, Kyle and Katelyn Kirtley, Dustin and Jasmine Brannon; three great-grandchildren; sisters, Joyce Parry and her husband Pete of Moab, Utah, Nancy Ledbetter and her husband Mark of Tupelo; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials may be made to the Virgil R. Williams Scholarship Fund, EANGUS Office, 3133 Mt. Vernon Ave, Alexandria, VA 22305.