Adaline Maude Williams
The service to celebrate the life of Adaline Maude Williams will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Cottonwood Falls United Methodist Church. The Rev. Melody Kimbrel will conduct the service. Burial will be in Matfield Green Cemetery at Matfield Green. Friends may call at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home from 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday and at the church from 1:30 p.m. Sunday until service time.
Memorial contributions to the Cottonwood Falls united Methodist Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry St., Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Mrs. Williams died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, at the Chase County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Cottonwood Falls, where she had lived since August 2001. She was 102.
The daughter of Thomas and Kathryn “Katie” Lippert Reidel, she was born May 24, 1904, on the family farm east of Matfield Green. She married Lonnie Williams on June 15, 1923, in Salina. He died Jan. 2, 1982.
She taught school four years at the Oil Valley School in northern Butler County and four years at Fairplay School in southern Marion County. She and her husband owned and operated the Silver Coat Restaurant in Emporia from 1931 until 1941 and Triangle Luncheonette in Wichita from 1942 until 1947. They owned and operated a motel in Wichita from 1948 until 1952. In 1952, they moved to the Lake of the Ozarks and owned and operated a resort until 1971, when they moved to Cottonwood Falls.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Cottonwood Falls United Methodist Church, the UMW Christian Society and the Rainbow Garden Club.
She is survived by nieces and nephews.
Four brothers, Henry Reidel, Elbert Reidel, Leonard Reidel and John Reidel; and a sister, Anna Reidel, died earlier.