Mary Ellen Hoover Williams died August 25, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tn. Mary was born April 23, 1925, at LeRoy, Illinois, a daughter of Louis & Lenora Strange Hoover. She married Gerald E. [Whitey] Williams on April 28, 1944, at Saint Matthews Episcopal Church, and they celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in 2003.
Mary was a member of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, a member of Louis E. Davis Post 56 Auxiliary, a past member of Bloomington Delphi, a Bloomington High School 1943 graduate and a working committee member of the 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998 Class Reunions, and past member & Treasurer of St. Agnes Guild of her church. Mary retired in July 1985 from the City of Bloomington after 21 ½ years of service, nine (9) of those years as Secretary to the Mayor Richard Buchanan and City Managers William L. Vail and Herman Dukes.
She was preceded in death by her husband and parents, and two sons, Daniel David Williams in 1991, and Jeffrey Charles Williams in 1965, three sisters Juanita Carver and Alice Ferguson of Bloomington, Illinois, and Martha Underwood of Richland Washington, two brothers Jack Hoover, Paxton, Illinois, and Donald Hoover, Heyworth, Illinois.
She is survived by a daughter, Rebecca Sue Karger & son-in-law Ronald Karger, Hixson, Tn., and two grandchildren Kimberley Marie (Karger) Chadwell, Seffner, Fl., and Meredith Joy Karger, Hixson, Tn., and three great grandchildren, Quinn, Hudson, and Liesel Chadwell (Seffner, FL), and numerous nieces & nephews.
She was a caring, kind, and loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt, neighbor & good friend. May she rest in peace. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
Visitation will be at East Lawn Funeral Home on August 29th from 10-12 and service celebrating her life will immediately follow at 12 pm. Interment will take place after the service at East Lawn Memorial Gardens in Bloomington, Illinois.
Arrangements under the direction of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist-North Chapel, Hixson, TN.
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