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GYNETH (REYNOLDS) WILLIAMS

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Services: 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Cantlon Otterness Funeral Home of Buffalo. Burial in Memorial Gardens of Memory. Visitation: Friends may call until 7 p.m. Friday, at the funeral home.

Pastor David Miller will officiate. Online condolences can be made at www.cantlonotterness.com.

Escorts are Jeffrey Herbel, Charles Williams, Roger Perkins, Jerry Cox, Danny Mann and Eric Otterness.

Gyneth (Reynolds) Williams, 94, was born April 2, 1920, in Stone County, the daughter of Isaac Thomas and Susan Elizabeth (Scroggs) Reynolds. She died Jan. 26, 2015, at Colonial Springs Healthcare Center, Buffalo.

She was reared and did her schooling in Stone County.

She was united in marriage with Archie Williams on March 9, 1940. They owned and operated a grocery store in Arkansas, then Bois D Arc and then one in Buffalo before moving to Louisburg.

While in Louisburg they established what came to be known as Williams Bros Grocery and Feed store for several years. They built and operated Archie’s 66 Service and Cafe where she was a cook for several years. They also owned Louisburg Lumber until they retired.

She was a member of the Louisburg Christian Church and was the treasurer for many years.

She enjoyed cooking, especially her famous lemon cake, knitting, gardening and canning, especially green beans, and visiting with friends on the telephone. She also enjoyed when her grandchildren came to visit and they would stay for a month at a time.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant son, Gordon Williams; six sisters: Hazel Elden, Chella Mann, Mae Leonard, Edith Hardin, Ollie Mallotte and Juanita Perkins; five brothers: Mack Reynolds, Walter Reynolds, Claude Reynolds, Henry Reynolds and Homer Reynolds; and son-in-law, Dan Denham.

Survivors include her two daughters: Joanne Denham, Louisburg, and Wanda Herbel, Burke, Va.; two grandchildren: Jeffrey Herbel and Teri Ann Horton; three great-grandchildren: Alex Herbel, D.B. Horton and Drake Horton; and many nieces, nephews, friends and family who will truly miss her


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