Poet laureate Billy O. Williams dies - Hand written died Sat. August 31, 1985, Son of Oliver and Annie Williams

  McLEMORESVILLE -- Services for Billy O. Williams, 63, the associate poet laureate of Tennessee, will be at 3 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Kent Bailey officiating.  Burial will be in McLemoresville Cemetery.

  Mr. Williams, a retired salesman for the Memphis Furniture Co., died Saturday afternoon at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after his car and a truck collided on U. S. 70 north of Huntingdon.

  He was poet laureate of Carroll County and associate poet laureate for the state.  He served in the U. S. Air Force in World War II.  He was a member of the First Methodist Church in McLemoresville and of the Pleasant Green Masonic Lodge in Trezevant.

  Surviving are his wife, Nora A. Williams; four daughters, Patricia Newbill of McKenzie, Judy McDade of Bruceton, Betty Webb of McLemoresville and Peggy Bryant of Trezevant; two step-daughters, Millie Dangeau of Memphis and Frances Presley of Bakersfield, Calif.; a son Phil Williams of McLemoresville; two stepsons, Jim Winters of Great Falls, Mont.  And Dale Winters of Lakewood, N.J.; a sister Rachel McKinney of McLemoresville; two brothers, John T. Williams of Memphis and James A. Williams of McKenzie; and 14 grandchildren.

  Brummitt Funeral Home is in charge.