C.L. Williams
d. April 5, 2011
Date Died: April 05, 2011
Boyd ~ C.L. "Big Willie" Williams, 74, owner and operator of C.L. Williams Trucking Company went to be with our Lord, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Boyd.
Funeral is 3 p.m. Friday, April 8, 2011 at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Chapel with burial in Keeter Cemetery. Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Chaplain Dan Bellar will officiate. Pallbearers are his grandchildren, Kendell North, Cheryl Martin, Tanya Martin, Joe Lynn Andrews, Chance Crisp and Ethan Crisp. Honorary pallbearers are Bill Garland, Sammy Coker, Leroy Cook, Virgil Bolin, J.D. Erwin, Bill Kemp, Curtis Turk, Jr., Charles Cox, Donald Etter, Sammy Lee, Chat Williams, Carl Williams, Leon Coleman and Tommy Ernest.
C.L. was born on November 7, 1936 to Clint and Thelma (Haygood) Williams at home in Keeter, Texas. He married Frankie Ann Read on February 4, 1982 in Mineral Wells, Texas.
He was known as "Big Willie" by his trucking friends and "the Granddaddy of truck drivers" by others. C.L. spent 30 years hauling rock. He drove for Womack Trucking of Bridgeport, Bill Garland Trucking of Boyd and several other trucking companies out of Bridgeport. C.L. had 17 years of safe driving while being leased to Moore Transportation of Ft. Worth and won the Golden Medallion Award from the Sand and Gravel Motor Carriers Association, Inc. for excellence in the safe and professional operation of a commercial vehicle for 1989. He began his own business, C.L. Williams Trucking and sold it in 1990. After he retired he liked to reminisce about the good old days in the 60's and 70's of hauling rock. He said in the 80's it wasn't much fun anymore, too many new rules, regulations and a highway patrol every mile. C.L. believed in the Lord and his truck was his church.
HAVE A SAFE RIDE BIG WILLIE.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother-in-law, Earl Reed.
Those left behind to cherish his memories are his wife and partner of 38 years, Frankie Ann Williams of Boyd; his daughters, Thresa Ann Crisp and husband Henry Wayne of Decatur, Kerrie Lee VanHoose and husband Billy Edward Martin of Bridgeport and Robin Ann Williams of Plano; his grandchildren, Kendell North, Cheryl Martin, Tanya Martin, Joe Lynn Andrews, Chance Crisp and Ethan Crisp; his great grandchildren, Avery, Aspen, Aiden, Brody, Chevelle, McKinsley, Shea and Garrett; his brother, Sammy Ray Williams and wife Pam of Keeter; his sister, Sally Ruth Williams Reed of Boyd; other family members and a host of friends.
Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home, Boyd, Texas, 940-433-5310
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may god be with Sammy Williams family.
from the Willy Burch family.
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