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Lallage “Mimmie” <I>Deyton</I> Williams

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Lallage “Mimmie” Deyton Williams

Birth
Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA
Death
7 Jul 1992 (aged 66)
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Henrietta, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Lallage Deyton Williams, 66, the mother of Kansas University basketball coach Roy Williams, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Harrelson Funeral Home in Caroleen. The Rev. Grady Faulk will officiate. Burial will be in High Shoals Baptist Church's cemetery in Rutherford County.

Mrs. Williams died Tuesday, July 7, 1992, at Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville.

The daughter of Grover Clinton Deyton Sr. and Ina Halford Deyton, she was a native of Rutherford County. She lived in Charlotte in the 1940s and in Asheville for the past 38 years.

She worked 25 years for Vanderbuilt Shirt Factory in Asheville before retiring in 1988. She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post No. 891.

Survivors include a daughter, Frances Williams Baker, Charlotte; a son, Roy Allen Williams, Lawrence, Kan.; three sisters, Pauline Davis, Forest City, Grace Davidson, Chula Vista, Calif., and Florence Deyton, Caroleen; five brothers, Lester Deyton, Mooresboro, and Hubert Deyton, G.C. Deyton Jr., Eugene Deyton and Harry Deyton, all of Caroleen; and four grandchildren.

Thursday, July 9, 1992
Lallage Deyton Williams, 66, the mother of Kansas University basketball coach Roy Williams, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Harrelson Funeral Home in Caroleen. The Rev. Grady Faulk will officiate. Burial will be in High Shoals Baptist Church's cemetery in Rutherford County.

Mrs. Williams died Tuesday, July 7, 1992, at Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville.

The daughter of Grover Clinton Deyton Sr. and Ina Halford Deyton, she was a native of Rutherford County. She lived in Charlotte in the 1940s and in Asheville for the past 38 years.

She worked 25 years for Vanderbuilt Shirt Factory in Asheville before retiring in 1988. She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post No. 891.

Survivors include a daughter, Frances Williams Baker, Charlotte; a son, Roy Allen Williams, Lawrence, Kan.; three sisters, Pauline Davis, Forest City, Grace Davidson, Chula Vista, Calif., and Florence Deyton, Caroleen; five brothers, Lester Deyton, Mooresboro, and Hubert Deyton, G.C. Deyton Jr., Eugene Deyton and Harry Deyton, all of Caroleen; and four grandchildren.

Thursday, July 9, 1992

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  • Maintained by: John Russell Pierson
  • Originally Created by: A & R
  • Added: Dec 22, 2007
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23527628/lallage-williams: accessed ), memorial page for Lallage “Mimmie” Deyton Williams (30 Sep 1925–7 Jul 1992), Find a Grave Memorial ID 23527628, citing High Shoal Baptist Cemetery, Henrietta, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by John Russell Pierson (contributor 47258421).