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The Duncan Banner
Feb. 26, 1941
Mrs. Wal Williams, County's Second Woman Sheriff, Dies
Marlow--Mrs. Minnie L. Williams, 70, widow of former Sheriff Wal Williams who was killed May 13, 1930, in a gun fight with bank robbers, and herself a former sheriff of Stephens county, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of her husband's sister, Mrs. Fred Vaught.
Mrs. Williams had been ill for about four weeks. She moved from the home near Sterling, where she lived several years, to the Vaught home in Marlow about a month ago.
Mrs. Williams was born in Illinois. She came from El Dorado, Kan., to Marlow in 1901. She was a member of the Marlow First Christian Church.
Sheriff Williams took office in 1929, J. W. Marshall, former county attorney, said. On May 13, 1930, he was fatally wounded near Highway 29 and U.S. 81 in a gun fight with the Cunningham brothers, sought for a filling station robbery in which I. B. Gossett, Duncan policeman, was seriously wounded. Several other officers took part in the fight. A monument to Williams was erected near the spot several years ago.
Mrs. Williams, following her husband's death, was appointed by the county commissioners to fill out her husband's unexpired term, becoming the second woman sheriff in Stephens county. Mrs. Bill Cates, whose husband died in office, also previously had filled out an unexpired term.
Surviving Mrs. Williams are a son, Don E. Williams, of Fairbanks, Alaska; a granddaughter, Diana Williams, Los Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Towell and Mrs. Amy Bailey of Sterling, and a brother, Charles Powers, Ventura, Calif.
Efforts to communicate with the son failed yesterday. It was believed he might be on his way to Marlow. Unless some word is received from him, funeral services, directed by the Steele Funeral Home, probably will be held at the Marlow First Christian Church at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in the Marlow Cemetery.
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