Stroud homemaker Essie Mae Williams Sprague died Wednesday in Stroud at the age of 89.

Mrs. Sprague was born September 30, 1908, in Gatewood, Missouri to Hurley and Maggie Haggar Williams.

She lived most of her life in Stroud and married Arthur Graham on July 10, 1926, in Chandler. She married Marshall Sprague in 1963.

She was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church in Stroud.

Survivors include a son, Merl Edward Graham of Salina, Kansas, a daughter, Eloise Price of Stroud, three brothers, Lawrence Williams of Wellston, Doyle Williams of Ozark, Alabama and Perry Williams of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, a sister, Inez Warden of Stroud, eight grandchildren, twenty four great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and several other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Arthur Graham in 1963, her parents, four brothers and two daughters.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Free Will Baptist Church in Stroud with the Rev. Jim Christian and the Rev. Ray Price officiating.

Burial will be at Stroud Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home in Stroud.

Published June 4, 1998.