Mazie Ellon Williams Ledford

Mazie Ellon Williams Ledford, age 66, resident of Cleveland, TN, born August 19, 1943, passed from this life on May 17, 2010. She passed away at the family residence. She was born in Sunbright, Tennessee (Morgan County) to the late Henry Clyde Williams and Martha Lena Brown Williams. She was one of 12 children. She was a loving wife and mother, a homemaker, the family genealogist and she was of the protestant faith. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Willie David Ledford, her infant son, Willie David Ledford, Jr., granddaughter, Samantha EllonThoemke, her siblings, Bobby Wayne Williams, Jenny Elizabeth Williams, Charles Marvin Williams, Ruby June Williams Adams, Wanda Ruth Williams Hardesty, Clyde Mitchell Williams, Elmer Eugene Williams and Benjamin Williams.

She is survived by her daughters, Lena Mae Ledford, Debra Ann Ledford Crowell and husband Derek, Sara Louise Ledford Thoemke and husband Jack, her son Donald Wayne Ledford and wife Lisa, her step daughter, Roxanne Sigmon Colbaugh, grandchildren, Donald Wood, III, Elizabeth Henderson, Adam Biesemeyer, Amanda Thornhill, Jack Thoemke III, David Thoemke, Donald Ledford, Jr., Danielle Ledford, Ashely Sigmon, Tyler Colbaugh, Bryan Crowell and Sarah Hodshire and 9 great grandchildren. Brothers, Claude and Darlene Williams, Guy and Sue Williams and sister, Emma Pope. Many nieces and nephews also survive.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, May 22, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. at Boanerges Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Ray Cheatham, Rev. Jack Thoemke and Floyd Hardin officiating. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

The family will receive friends Friday, May 21, 2010, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Grissom Funeral Home who has charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be sent to www.grissomfh.net