Dolly Lord Williams was born July 14, 1935 to Tommie and Lena Lord at their home in the countryside near Red Level, Alabama. Dolly was the youngest of five children with two sisters and two brothers each of whom have preceded her in death. She told often how as a child she would lay in the wheelbarrow, watch the clouds and pray, telling the Lord when she grew up she wanted one little girl and a preacher husband. God gave her the desire of her heart.
She married her devoted husband, Curtis, March 28, 1953, and three years later gave birth to their only daughter, Karen (Kay). She served with Curtis as pastor’s wife for several churches in the Alabama Conference of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for forty-nine years. In most recent years, since their retirement from pastoring, Dolly attended Calvary Way Church.
Dolly also worked as a school bus driver for Escambia County until her medical retirement.
She moved to her heavenly home, October 16, 2020. She is survived by her husband of sixty-seven years, Rev. Curtis L. Williams, daughter Karen (Kay) Goodman and a host of extended family and friends who dearly loved her and will greatly miss her.
