Patricia W. Williams

Angier - Patricia W. Williams, 95, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of July 21, 2022. A native of Los Angeles, CA, she was the daughter of Joseph Franklin and Lucile Woodcock Willis. Patsy’s childhood was spent moving around the Los Angeles area due to her father’s occupation as an LA policeman. She graduated from Ben Franklin High School in 1942 in a class of hundreds, mostly girls due the ongoing World War II. Two years later, she met a Navy sailor named Connor Wood Williams of Angier on a blind date. Needless to say, it went well; they were married 14 days later on September 30, 1944, a happy marriage that lasted until Williams’ death on August 26, 2006. In February 1946, after Williams was discharged from the Navy, he and Pat boarded a cross-country train to Angier and made their permanent home there on North Broad Street, raising two sons, a daughter, and many cats. Pat was very active in her community, serving as a scout den mother, a voting precinct chief judge, a town librarian, a substitute teacher, and a newspaper columnist. She was a longtime member of the Angier United Methodist Church and sang in the church choir. Most of all, she was a loving housewife and mother who believed in attending church every Sunday, as shown by the many perfect attendance pins her children acquired over the years. Pat always looked forward to the family’s annual trips to Florida around Christmas, to visit her mother, brother and family. Her mother would later move to Angier to live with Pat and Connor Wood until her death in 2005 at age 100. Pat was also predeceased by a sister, Dorothy Willis, in 1927. Growing up near Hollywoodland as it was called then, Patsy loved going to the movies. A television set from Sears & Roebuck in 1951 arrived at her home, two years ahead of indoor plumbing. Growing up with avocado trees in her back yard, Pat never turned down an avocado sandwich. Pat is survived by her sons, Connor Wood Williams Jr. (Joan) of Raleigh and John Williams of the home, and daughter, Robin Williams of Angier; her grandchildren, Connor Williams III of Ann Arbor, MI and Melissa Daddio (David) of Takoma Park, MD; great-grandchildren, William Daddio and Margaret Daddio of Takoma Park, MD; brother, John Marcin (Sandra) of Bradenton, FL; nieces Michele Marcin of Bradenton, FL and Kristin Conlan (Walt) of Orlando, FL; nephews Michael Marcin of St. Petersburg, FL, and Lance Marcin (Susie) of St. Petersburg, FL; and her beloved cat, Molly. Pat’s family wishes to thank the staff of Emerald Health and Rehab of Lillington, and Community Home Care & Hospice of Lillington, for taking good care of her for the past ten months.