TERRY WILLIAMS

EL DORADO SPRINGS- Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Heckart Funeral Home in Sedalia for Terry Eugene Williams, 68, El Dorado Springs, who died at 11:52 a.m. Friday, May 21, 2021, at his home with his wife by his side. He had been diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer on Feb. 19, 2021. Rev. Van Mellen, Sr. will officiate. Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Highland Sacred Gardens.

Memorials may be given to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Shriner’s Hospital for Children or the Williams family fund.

Survivors include his wife, Tammy; daughter-in-law, Mindy Williams, Hutchinson, Kan.; stepchildren, Katie Nikodim and husband Matthew, El Dorado Springs, Johnathan Brasher and wife Amanda, Louisburg and Gregory Brasher, Stockton. He had five grand babies that he absolutely adored, Morgan and Jakob Nikodim and Jadyn, Eli and Charlene Brasher. Also surviving are a sister, Teresa Wiser, Warsaw; a brother, Ronnie Williams and wife Willy, Smithton; a half-brother, Gene Williams, Sedalia; a brother-in-law, Rick Lamb and wife Sharon, Webster, NY; his father-in-law, William Lamb, Nevada, Mo.; as well as a large extended family.

Mr. Williams was preceded in death by his wife Carol, on Dec.13, 2008, and his son, Gene, on Oct. 29, 2020; both parents, Don in 1988 and Beebe in 2010; maternal grandparents, Luther and Della Knowles; paternal grandparents, Ralph and Ruth “Mae” Williams; his eldest sister, Sandy Heurman, in 1974; brother-in-law, Jack Heurman, in 2015; an elder sister, Donna Maacks, February 16, 2021; brother-in-law, Donnie Wiser, in 2004 and step-mother, Phyllis Williams in 2003.

Mr. Williams AKA “Uncle Tune,” was born June 17, 1952 in Gordon, Neb., the third of five children belonging to Donald Eugene and Maebreecia Lorraine “Beebe” (Knowles) Williams. He attended Washington School and Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia.

In his early years of employment he worked at Imperial Gas Station, Turley Brothers, and Duke, all of Sedalia. On June 16, 1973 he married Carol Elaine Cooke in Sedalia and to this union one son was born, Eugene Glenn Williams in 1976. He and his wife moved to Borger, Texas in 1973 and he was employed by B&C Well Service. At that time in life he thought he was “living in high cotton”, making $500 a week. In 1976 he was employed by Argonaut Energy in Amarillo, Texas, as a company pumper. He owned his own contract pumping business, C&T Consulting, contract pumping wells from 1987 to 2012. He would oversee wells in Texas, the Western Oklahoma Panhandle and Kansas. With more than 40 years of oil field experience, he had been employed with 21 large gas and oil companies, including but not limited to Mesa Petroleum, Whiting Oil and Gas, Sampson Resources, EOG Resources, Merchantson Exploration, Marlin Oil and Conoco-Phillips. He retired in 2017.

On September 29, 2012, he married Tammy Lea (Lamb) Gillette in Lamar. He accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior on March 30, 2021 and was baptized on April 4, 2021 in Warsaw.

In the early days, 1968-1970, he loved motor cross racing with his Bultaco motorcycle in Marshall, Calif., Warrensburg and Mexico, Mo. and flat track racing his 100cc Kawasaki. He enjoyed watching NASCAR to present day. “Honkey Tonkin’” and scuba diving with his wife Carol and friends. He loved the music of Johnny Rivers and The Righteous Brothers. Toyota trucks, of which he had owned 13 through the years. He loved to fish! An occasional round of golf. Since retirement, you could find him in the recliner watching every single episode of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Rifleman, The Virginian and Andy Griffith, while eating a hot dog or two. He always had to have a cold piece of watermelon or a jalapeno pepper to go with it. You could also find him sitting on the back deck of his home watching the deer, turkey, quail and the occasional bobcat meander through the yard. He loved his hummingbirds! He loved his fur babies, Maggie Mae and Toby Scott. He would spend his days taking the dogs through the drive thru for a pup cup of ice cream or chicken nuggets and then wonder why they were so spoiled! He had a heart of gold and was a loving, giving man.