Obit – Mrs. Linda Williams Ashford
Mrs. Linda Williams Ashford made her transition to her heavenly home on Sunday evening at 11:30 p.m. with her family at her bedside. The 78 year old homemaker of the Stonewall Community was surrounded by her loved ones and was pronounced deceased at 12:50 a.m. Monday morning June 10, 2024 by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been lovingly assisting the family with her care.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted Friday June 14th at 11 a.m. with Eld. Luke Spurgeon officiating. She was buried in the Garden of Everlasting Life at the Smith County Memorial Gardens beside her first husband and the father of her children, Charles Ralph Williams who died at the age of 61 on February 27, 2005.
Mrs. Williams-Ashford was the fifth of six children born to the late Hubert James Harris who died at the age of 79 on July 27, 1991 and Carlene Overstreet Harris who died at the age of 84 on July 19, 1998 and was born Linda Fay Harris in the Elmwood Community on July 17, 1945.
Mrs. Williams-Ashford was preceded in death by a son, Michael “Pete” Williams who died April 11, 2022 at the age of 51 and by a granddaughter, Charity Lynn Williams who died as the result of an automobile accident on February 2, 2014 at the age of 25.
Four of her five siblings preceded her in death, Doris Harris Ramsey who died July 28, 1984 at the age of 50, Roberta Harris Williams who died September 25, 2003 at the age of 62, Hubert James Harris who died January 9, 2004 at the age of 68 and Milton Harris who died June 7, 2018 at the age of 79.
Following the death of Ralph in 2005, she was united in marriage to Tommy Coleman Ashford of Smithville on July 4, 2007 and the ceremony was performed by her son-in-law, Eld. Chris White at the New Salem Missionary Baptist Church.
Mrs. Williams-Ashford was saved at the age of 17 and was baptized into the full fellowship of the Caney Fork Missionary Baptist Church by the late Eld. Charles Allen Gentry and where she remained a member until her death.
She was a longtime machine operator at the former Overstreet-Hughes in South Carthage and retired in 2010 after the plant became Muller.
Surviving in addition to her husband Tommy of almost seventeen years are her two daughters, Karen Williams Alvis and husband Mike of the Brush Creek Community, Kim Williams White and husband Eld. Chris White of the Chestnut Mound Community; brother, longtime Gordonsville Police Chief, Wayne Harris and wife Judy of the Club Springs Community; six grandchildren, Kristian White and Gracie White both of the Chestnut Mound Community, Matthew Angel of the Pea Ridge Community, Luci Alvis of the Brush Creek Community, Kassie Wallace and husband Josh of Baxter, and Gunner Williams and fiancée Emme Hicks of Lebanon; six great-grandchildren.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
