Sara Williams

Sara Anne Bryant Williams died on Monday, October 1, 2012.
Born on August 1, 1923, to Dr. Leroy Bryant Sr. and Mertie Bryan Bryant, she grew up in Maxeys and graduated from Maxeys High School. She attended North Georgia College and the University of Georgia, and taught school in Maxeys and in Ocala, Fla. She was married to Thomas G. Williams Jr., of Greensboro, for 64 years; they married at the Maxeys Christian Church in 1948.
She was a member of the Maxeys Christian Church, where she was on the church board and a Sunday School teacher for many years. She and her husband wrote a history of the church in 1991. She served as president of the Ladies Aid Society and the Maxeys Community Club, and was a member of the Homemakers Club and Daughters of the Confederacy. She was active as a volunteer 4-H leader and served on the Oglethorpe County Health Board for 18 years. She was a charter member of the A.T. Brightwell School Board, where she had served as president and secretary, and was also a charter member of Historic Oglethorpe.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Leroy Bryant Jr., of Charleston, S.C. Survivors include her husband; daughters, Sara Katherine "Kay" Williams and her husband, Bob Grist, of Micanopy, Fla., and Lisa Anne Williams Shirreffs and her husband, John Joseph Shirreffs, of Athens; and grandsons, Bryant and Evan Shirreffs, of Athens.
Services will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 3, at the chapel of Lord & Stephens East, with the Rev. Doug Ivey officiating. Mr. Harold Darden will deliver the eulogy. The family will receive friends for visitation at the funeral home from 2:30 until 4 p.m. A private burial will be at Sunset Cemetery, Maxeys, on Thursday, October 4.
Flowers are optional. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association or to Maxeys Christian Church, Maxeys, GA 30671.
Lord & Stephens Funeral Home East, Athens, is in charge of the arrangements.
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