Individual Details

Etta Karlene Williams

(17 Nov 1913 - 17 Feb 2007)



Birth Certificate lists date of birth as 17 Nov 1913. Father: John Wesley Williams of Howard Co, IN, age 23, b. Piatt County, Illinois, Farmer. Mother: Lora Edna Parkhurst of Howard Co IN, age 24, b. Boone Co, IN. First child in the family.

Huntington Herald-Press (IN) - Monday, February 19, 2007
E. Karlene Henry, 93, a resident of Heritage Pointe in Warren, died at 11:12 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 17, 2007) at the Bluffton Regional Medical Center.
Mrs. Henry was a homemaker and the wife of a farmer. She worked at Utrad in Huntington for 20 years, retiring in 1974. She was a member of the Mt. Etna United Methodist Church, the Wayne Township Home Economics Club, and the Mt. Etna Order of the Eastern Star. She lived in rural Andrews from 1951 until 1999 when she moved into the United Methodist Memorial Home in Warren.
She was born Nov. 17, 1913 in Howard County, to Wesley and Lora Parkhurst Williams. She was a 1932 graduate of Clay Township High School, in Howard County. She married Ivan Harold Henry in Bunker Hill on Jan. 28, 1933. He died on March 12, 1998.
Survivors include three daughters, Patricia Searles, Warren, Janice Keiffer, LaFontaine, and Diane Kingrey, Huntington; a sister, Winifred Jackson, Kokomo; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Calling is from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Glancy Funeral Homes-H. Brown and Son Chapel, Warren. The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with Pastor Herbert Edwards officiating.
Burial will be at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are to the Mt. Etna United Methodist Church in care of Glancy Funeral Homes-H. Brown and Son Chapel, 203 N. Matilda St., Warren, IN 46792.

Events

Birth17 Nov 1913Howard County, Indiana
Marriage26 Jan 1933Fulton County, Indiana - Ivan Harold Henry
Death17 Feb 2007Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana

Families

SpouseIvan Harold Henry (1911 - 1998)
ChildLiving
FatherJohn Wesley Williams (1889 - 1974)
MotherLora Edna Parkhurst (1889 - 1974)
SiblingJune Winifred Williams (1919 - 2008)