Bobbie S Thomas

Zabriskie Chapel, Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill

3606 Seminary Road, Alexandria VA 22304.

Reception following in the Parish Hall.

Interment of Ashes will be in the Memorial Garden.

Bobbie was born March 25, 1935, in Greenville, Mississippi, to Ruth Levings Shaw and raised by loving parents Jane Bartholomew and Robert H. Shaw. She was 88. Mrs. Thomas graduated from The College of William and Mary, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi and married her first husband, Henry Alexander Thomas, the day after she graduated. She was a member of the first graduating class of George Mason High School, Falls Church, Virginia. She spent her adult life in Alexandria and enjoyed opening her home and heart for charity and social gatherings. She played tennis and later golf, where she met her current husband, William Twyman Williams, with whom she has shared life for over 25 years. By 2004, she won the Belle Haven Country Club Nine Holes Ladies Golf Invitational and in 2007 the two-day BHCC Memorial Tournament. Early on, Bobbie taught school in Richmond and Alexandria public schools. She was active at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill and numerous civic and social associations. She is predeceased by first husband Henry Alexander Thomas, daughter Anne Alexander Thomas, and grandson William Seth McClelland. Surviving is her beloved husband William Twyman Williams of Alexandria, Virginia, her sons, Robert Griffith Thomas of St. Petersburg, Florida, Henry Shaw Thomas of Denver, Colorado, grandchildren, Carter Robinson Thomas and Mary Page Thomas, sister Sally Shaw Wyckoff (Jim), brothers, Peter B. Shaw (Linda), Robert H. Shaw, Jr. (Libby), sister-in-law, Suzanne F. Thomas (Bill deceased) and all their families. A more detailed obituary can be found in The Zebra and Alexandria Gazette.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent in memory of Bobbie to Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill at the above address.