Submitted by: Georgia Gill-Elkins

South Bend Tribune Nov. 3, 1971 p. 62  

DeForest S. Williams  

Funeral services for DeForest Sprague Williams, 64, of Orlando. Fla., former South Bend resident, will be Thursday in Orlando. Interment will be in Osceola Memory Gardents, Kissimmee, Fla.  The Fairchild Funeral Home in Orlando has charge of arrangements. Mr. Williams was born in 1907 in St. Joseph, Mich., and had resided in South Bend 45 years before moving to Florida. He retired recently form the Jewel Tea Co., South Bend. His first wife died in June 1968 . In March 1971 he married Gwendolyn Wyat, who survives. Other survivors are a son, David C. and a daughter , Mrs. Walter Wegenka Jr., both of South Bend and six grandchildren and a stepdaughter Lisa Wyat, of Orlando.