October 26, 1936 - October 30, 2022
Funeral services for Elizabeth Carol Williams will be 11:00am Wednesday, November 2, 2022 in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Gail Edmison officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.
Elizabeth Carol Horton was born at the family home on October 26, 1936 to Dudley Reeves and Frances Beatrice (Williams) Horton, their only child, in Dallas, Texas. She passed away October 30, 2022 in Enid.
After high school graduation, Carol trained to be a lab technician at a local hospital. She did some other small jobs like working at Woolworths, a department store and childcare.
At the age of ten, Carol was baptized in Forney Ave Baptist Church and over the years served as a Sunday School teacher. She was very active in church and went to several church camps, one in North Carolina. Her grandparents lived very close and she adored getting to visit them almost every day. She loved helping in the garden, cleaning house, watching movies and enjoying the State Fair of Texas with several cousins and aunts.
In 1956, she met Donald Williams from a girlfriend of hers. He was in the Air Force and she thought guys in the military were very special and nice-looking as her father and uncles were in the Navy. He asked Carol to marry him after their first date and she said, “Sure”. On Friday, July 13, 1956 they were married in Dallas, Texas. While he was on active duty, they moved around quite a lot and even spent two years in Guam, which Carol said was a beautiful place but the island was much too small and too far from Texas. After 20 years of service, upon his retirement in 1972, they made their home in Enid as this was where Don was born and grew up close to his cousins and family.
Carol is survived by five children, Donna (John); Rick; Mike; Debbie (Cindy) and Rob (Theresa) as well as lots of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In Carol’s own words she stated, “The hardest thing to cope with, after all these years, my partner, best friend and love passed away in 2008 after fifty-one years and eleven months together. He will always be in my heart and no one can ever take his place.”
Memorials can be given through the funeral home to OMRF – Alzheimer’s Division or Cancer Division.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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