Phyllis Williams

Funeral services will be held for Phyllis Williams, 59, of Burns Flat, at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday), at Don Lemke Gymnasium in Burns Flat. She died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Oklahoma City.

Mrs. Williams was born May 14, 1956, to Daphne Rose and James Leonidas Vanderford, in Anchorage, Alaska. She attended schools in Greenham Common, England, Mountain Home, Idaho, and Tampa, Fla., before moving to Burns Flat in 1967. She graduated from high school in Burns Flat in 1974.

In 1973 she married Clyde Keith Williams, and they made their home in Burns Flat.

She went back to school at Western Technology Center where she received certificates in the commercial culinary program and the business program. She later attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University and graduated with honors in history education, then began teaching history and other classes at Burns Flat-Dill City High School. For the past ten years, Williams taught computer classes and printing at Western Career Tech. She had been the president of the Burns Flat Alumni Association since 2010, and enjoyed overseeing the reunions.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her father-in-law, Shorty Williams; and one sister-in-law, Linda Williams.

Survivors include her husband, of the home; four children, Michael Williams and wife, Cristi, Canute, Alisha Williams, Piedmont, Erick Williams and wife, Kellie, May, and Cole Williams and wife, Sara, Beaver; five grandchildren, Kyler Williams, Dalton Williams, Lindie Williams, Harlie Williams and Cotton Williams; her mother-in-law, “Grandma Country” Ms. R.L. Williams; her step-father, Frank Sherron; two brothers, Jimmy Vanderford and wife, Ada, Burns Flat, and Anthony Vanderford and wife, Heather, Tampa, Fla.; three sisters, Denise Willis and husband, Tony, Burns Flat, Angela Lamb, Tampa, Fla., and Paulette Malinowski and husband, Pete, Canute; two brothers-in-law, Leon Williams and wife, Luada, and Tommy Williams and wife, Kema, all of Dill City; and several nieces, nephews, extended family, other relatives and friends.

Memorial donations may be made to the Burns Flat Dill City Educational Foundation at P.O. Box 52, Burns Flat, OK, 73624. Condolences can be made online at www.whineryfs.com.
Interment will be at North Burns Cemetery in Burns Flat.