Amelia Jane Griner Williams, 84, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Irwin County Hospital in Ocilla.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M., Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at Ocilla United Methodist Church, in Ocilla, with the Rev. Jay Roberson officiating. John L. Koch will deliver the eulogy. Entombment will follow at 1:30 PM at Brushy Creek Cemetery, in Irwin County. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the church
Mrs. Williams was born October 25, 1933, in Ocilla, Georgia to the late Otto & Mildred Amelia Schloss Griner. She was a 1950 graduate of Ocilla High School. Mrs. Williams was a graduate of Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia, as was her mother. She also graduated from the University of Georgia. Along with her husband, she was a graduate of the U. S. State Department’s Foreign Service Short Course.
Mrs. Williams had resided in eight states and in Ankara, Turkey, while her husband served in the United States Air Force and with the Lockheed Corporation at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She and her husband enjoyed traveling and had visited many foreign countries and most of the states of the U. S. A.
Mrs. Williams was an avid lifelong supporter of the arts and for more than forty years had served on the boards of such organizations as the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, the Brevard Cultural Alliance, the Orlando Public Broadcasting Stations, the King Center for the Performing Arts and the Tiger Bay Club. Mrs. Williams was named “Woman of the Year” in 1992 for Brevard County. She was a long-time member of the social sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma and was a life member of the Salzburger Society, an organization of descendants of the colony of Austrian Protestant refugees, which settled near Savannah, Georgia in 1734. For over forty years, Mrs. Williams owned and operated successful farms in Irwin County, Georgia, producing cotton, peanuts and timber.
Mrs. Williams was a lifelong member of the Ocilla United Methodist Church. Throughout her life, she was a beautiful, charming and delightful person often referred to as “the perfect Southern Lady.”
She is survived by her childhood sweetheart and devoted husband of 63 years, Colonel John Duncan Williams, PhD of Ocilla; two daughters: Amelia Williams Koch & John of New Orleans, Louisiana and Caroline Williams Burns & Rod of Edinburgh, Scotland and her grandchildren: Amelia Challis Koch, John Albin Koch and Olive Amelia Burns.
The family suggests those desiring to send memorials may send them to Ocilla United Methodist Church, P O Box 61, Ocilla, Georgia, 31774 or to Brushy Creek Cemetery Fund, 537 Brushy Creek Road, Ocilla, Georgia 31774.