Clyde Morgan Williams

Born: November 11, 1891 in Snyder's Mill, West Virginia
Died: April 18, 1970 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Buried: April 20, 1970 in Orange Grove Cemetery, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Wife: Lorraine Wachsen
Married: April 20, 1927 in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles American Press, April 19, 1970:

C. M. Williams dies; rites are Thursday

        Funeral services for Clyde Morgan Williams of 723 Broad St., prominent local businessman, will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.
        The Rev. Richard R. Cook, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in Orange Grove Cemetery under direction of Hammer Funeral Home.
        The body will be taken to the church at 10 a.m. Thursday and will be there until time of services.
        Mr. Williams died at 11:40 p.m. Tuesday in a local hospital after a short illness.
        He was retired vice president of Southern Amusement Co.
        A native of Martinsburg, W. Va., he had lived here many years. He was a graduate of Shepherd College in Shepherds Town, W. Va. He was also a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
        He was a chemist by profession and established one of the first chemistrical plants in Lake Charles, a rice hull processing plant.
        Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lorraine Wachsen Williams; three sisters, Miss Kathryn Williams, Mrs. Robert G. Coffman and Mrs. Neil W. Miller, all of Martinsburg, W. Va.; a number of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews.
        Pallbearers will be F. Lisle Peters Jr., Albert Miller Jr., Henry C. Alexander, Gurth Anderson, A. B. Connan, Albert Funk, E. K. Crosby Jr., and Bruce Layer of Houston.