Hildebrand Cemetery

Zena, Delaware, Oklahoma

Fred McWilliams

© Enid Morning News Enid, Oklahoma December 22, 1988 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Nowata – The funeral for Fred McWilliams, 73, of Alluwe who died Thursday at a Nowata hospital, will be held at 10 AM Saturday at Benjamin Funeral Service Chapel in Nowata. The Rev. Ernest Ashcraft will officiate. Burial will follow in Hilderbrand Cemetery near Xena on Grand Lake.

He was born January 16, 1915, in Skiatook and attended Delaware schools before moving to Enid where he graduated from high school in 1935. He served in the U. S. Navy from 1936 to 1940. He lived in Collinsville for 18 years and at Grand Lake before moving to Alluwe two years ago. He retired from Rockwell International in Tulsa and was a member of the Methodist Church. He and Phyllis Jane Shaffer were married July 13, 1938, in Seattle, Washington. She died January 14, 1986.

McWilliams and Minerva Timms were married December 5, 1986, in Miami, Oklahoma.

Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Rosalle Stacks and Charlotte Patrick, both of Jay, and Maratie Studie of Collinsville; two brothers, Jack of Topeka, Kansas, and Olaf of Nowata; and four grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.

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