June Kathryn Williams

June Kathryn Williams, age 86, of Grants Pass, died Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at her home.

Private interment was held at Hawthorne Memorial Gardens. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

June was born to William & Zella Hodson on June 1, 1923 in Glengary, Oregon, nine miles south of Roseburg. She grew up in Roseburg and graduated from Roseburg High School. After graduation, she worked at Horns Bakery where she met Robert Stuart who she later married in 1943. While her husband served in the United States Army she lived in Santa Clara, California. At the end of the war, she moved back to Roseburg where she raised her two daughters and worked at LaVerns Dress Shop. After divorcing in 1959, she married the late Curtis Williams in 1961 and moved to Grants Pass. While in Grants Pass she worked at Hadleys Dress Shop and in ladies wear at the Golden Rule Department Store until her retirement in the mid 1970s.

She was a member of First Christian Church in Roseburg and First Baptist Church in Grants Pass.

If the sun was shining, she was always out in her yard making beautiful flowers grow. June loved sewing, embroidery, reading and crocheting beautiful award winning afghans. She especially loved playing with her great-grandchildren.

Survivors include two daughters, Janis Lilla and Pamela DeYoung both of Grants Pass; three granddaughters, Kammi Lilla-Bare of Grants Pass, Dawn DeYoung Elovitz of Laguna Niguel, California, and Shannan Lilla of Dexter; a grandson, Ryan DeYoung of Medford; a sister, Alma Cutts of Cottage Grove, Oregon; a brother, Ernie Hodson of Paradise, California; and ten great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Curtis R. Williams; and four brothers, Bill Hodson, Charlie Hodson, Frank Hodson, and John Hodson.