Cleo Hicks Williams Marble Nc - Cleo Hicks William Residence.

A native of Cherokee County, NC., she was a graduate of Andrews High School and Memorial Mission School of Nursing. Cleo was the Operating Room Supervisor and Director of Nursing at District Memorial Hospital. She had also worked for Mountain Home Nursing, she was an artist, musician and author of Gratitude for Shoes; Growing Up Poor In The Smokies. She was the daughter of the late Lawton and Basha Taylor Hicks and was preceded in death by her husband, Van Williams who died in 1987.

She is survived by her son, David Williams and his wife Teresa of Marble, NC; her daughter, Donna Howell and her husband Steve of Young Harris, GA; her brother, Oval Hicks and his wife Jo of Flowery Branch, GA; brother-in-law, Grover Williams of Murphy, NC; one sister, Juanita Postell of the Red Marble Community; four sisters-in-laws, Virginia Hicks of Andrews, NC, Betty Kuykendall and her husband Carrol of Marble, NC, Anna Belle Lee of the Pinelog Community and Roberta Hicks of Clayton, GA; four grandchildren, Cammie, Jessica, John and Cody and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 6:30 PM, Thursday, July 10, 2008 at the Marble Springs Baptist Church in Marble, NC, where she was a member. Rev. Bernie Dixon, Rev. Fred Lunsford and Pastor Jeff Maynard will officiate. Burial will be in the Moss Cemetery in Marble, NC. Pallbearers will be Glenn Rogers, Gordon Deyton, Neil McKeehan, Howard Coffey, Dick Brown, Dane Parker, Howard Brown and Roger Holloway.

The family will receive friends from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, Thursday, July 10, 2008 at the Marble Springs Baptist Church in Marble, NC.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Cleo Hicks Williams Scholarship Fund, c/o Joanna Cornerstone Ministries, 17 Valley Avenue, Suite 4, Murphy, NC 28906.

Townson-Rose Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.