Bessie L Williams

Mansfield, LA - Funeral services honoring the life of Bessie Louise Williams, 84, will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at Pleasant Hill Pentecostal Church in Pleasant Hill, LA with Reverend Douglas McManus and Jonathan McManus officiating. Burial will follow at Bethsaida Cemetery in Many, LA. The family will receive friends at Pleasant Hill Pentecostal Church in Pleasant Hill, LA on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 11:00 AM. Bessie was born on September 13, 1931 to William and Alice Lindsey and passed away on June 19, 2016 in Mansfield, LA. Preceding Bessie in death is her husband, M.D. Williams; father, William Lindsey; mother, Alice Lindsey; son, M.W. "Bud" Williams; daughter, Mary Ott, and great granddaughter, Holly Matthews. Those left behind to cherish her memory are her daughter Clara Dear of Mansfield, LA; sister, Donnis DeLoach of Shreveport, LA; brothers, Arthur Lindsey and wife Nellie of Coushatta, LA, Bobby Lindsey and wife Pat of Elysian Fields, TX; 15 grandchildren; 34 great grandchildren; and 17 great great grandchildren. Those honoring the life of Bessie Williams as pallbearers will be Wayne Rains, Terry, Folden, Bobby Waddle, Cody Hippler, Harold Aldridge, and Anthony Trader. Those honoring as Honorary Pallbearers are Travis "Bubba" Williams, T.J. Ott, Vernon Mitchell, Jesse Waddle, Scotty Trader, James "Dusty" Brown, and Kenneth Blankenship.