AUDREY WILLIAMS

AUDREY WILLIAMS

LAKE CITY — Audrey Dell (Perdue) Williams, 91, passed away Monday June 29, 2020 at home in Lake City. Private family services will be held. Lampe Funeral Home in Lake City is assisting the family.

Audrey was born on February 19, 1929 on a farm at Ogilvie, Minnesota, to Hazel Dell (Collins) Perdue and Robert Harvey Perdue. Audrey’s family moved to Southwest Iowa when Audrey was a baby and that is where Audrey grew up. She graduated high school from Red Oak, Iowa and attended Drake University in Des Moines. When she graduated from Drake as a music teacher her first job was in

Lake City, Iowa. Audrey taught generations of students in the surrounding area to love singing. While in Lake City teaching that first year she met John Thomas (Tom) Williams from Jefferson, Iowa and they were married in June 1951. They had 63 years together before Tom passed away in 2014. To this union were born three children, Sara, Scott and Sally.

Left to mourn Audrey’s passing are her son Scott Williams (Juanita) of Iowa City; Sally Winter (Daryl) of Lake City; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Audrey was preceded in death by her parents, her in-laws, her husband Tom, her daughter Sara, her brother Errol Perdue and his wife Lola and her sister Roberta Maxwell and husband Maurice.