Norma Lee Williams, age 85 of Urich, Missouri passed away Sunday, February 17, 2013 at her home. Visitation for family and friends will be 10:00-11:00 A.M., Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton, Missouri. Inurnment will be at a later date at the Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Family suggests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society or C.A.R.E.(Clinton Animal Rescue Endeavor) and may be left in care of funeral home. Fond memories can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Norma was born in Kansas City, Missouri, October 6, 1927, the youngest of three children born to James Earl and Blanche Ruth (Richman) Sanders. The family moved to Deepwater, Missouri, when Norma was a youngster. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Billie Irvin Williams on August 8, 1947. Billie and Norma initially lived in Clinton, but reared their family in a home they built in the Quarles area. They retired to Urich in 1992. Norma took great pride in being a homemaker and mom, using her many talents in decorating the family home, landscaping, gardening, sewing, and baking. Although Norma was a private woman, she enjoyed the beauty of nature and the ways of its creatures, large and small.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Billie; her parents, Earl and Blanche Sanders; one son, Chris Williams; one brother, Archie Sanders; and one sister, Betty Dunning Newman.

She is survived by her son, Alex Williams and companion, Phil Johnson, of Imperial, Pennsylvania; two daughters, Nicki Greenwood and husband, Bill, of Adrian, and Jerri Rasse and husband, David, of Marshall; and three grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Robin Cott and husband Jeff, and son Jackson, Matthew Rasse and son, Baron, and Jessica Rasse and companion James Townsend, and daughter Makayla.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home of Clinton, Missouri.