Barbara Jo Williams

January 22, 1938 - April 25, 2020

Barbara Jo Williams, age 82 of Clayton, Oklahoma passed away on Saturday April 25th, 2020. We lost our beloved wife, mother of 3, and grandmother of 10 to complications from a long fight with cancer. She was a feisty woman born on January 22nd, 1938 to James Foster Smith and Nancy Jane Cozier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She graduated from Central High School and retired from Gifford Hill and Del City as a substitute teacher. Barbara married Ezra "Willie" Williams in 1970 and they raised two daughters, Carla and Vickie and one son, Scott. Her favorite job was grandma to ten special people and great grandma to twenty-three great grandchildren. She shared her love of gardening, birds, and art of all kinds, especially painting. Early in her life, she enjoyed fishing. There were always adopted community kids around and an extra chair at the table for a stranger. Remember her in your gardens for where flowers bloom, so does hope, for lovely flowers are the smiles of God's Goodness. Barbara is preceded in death by her mother, Nancy Smith and her sister, Nancy Putnam. Visitation will be at McCarn Funeral Service in Talihina, Oklahoma on Thursday, April 30th, 2020 from 4:00PM - 8:00PM. Please remember the social distancing order and allow for no more than 10 people in the facility at one time. Graveside services will be on Friday, May 1st, 2020 at 11:00AM at AL Stephens Cemetery in Clayton, Oklahoma with Bro. Paul Sluder officiating. Services are entrusted to McCarn Funeral Service of Talihina, Oklahoma.