Lillian L. Williams

Lillian L Williams age 93 of Oshkosh passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at Evergreen Retirement Community, and has been reunited with her loving husband Arthur, who preceded her in death January 8,2010, after almost 59 years. She was born in Oshkosh on August 17th,1931 and lived here her entire life.

On June 30th, 1951, she married Arthur H. Williams at First Presbyterian Church in Oshkosh and remained a member until passing. She graduated from Oshkosh High School in January of 1950 while working summers at Hoffmaster.

 Together they built their first home in Oshkosh, then the move came to build on the farm where they built their second beautiful home and lived there for the next 38 years. Lillian worked on campus at UWO for twenty years. In 1990 when she retired and was a caregiver for family members. Lillian was a great homemaker to her family and loved each one dearly. She was a loving and compassionate person, always there for others, and had a great love of nature and animals. She was proud of her accomplishments in life and never gave up on anything she put her mind to. The word “can’t” was not in her vocabulary. She loved dancing, all kinds and jitter bugging in her younger years, Big Band and Classical music.

Lillian was an excellent cook, baker, seamstress, gardener, home decorator and more. She enjoyed preserving from their huge vegetable gardens and fruit beds. Through the years she made wines, jams, helped plant lots of trees and had gorgeous displays of flowers for a near like park atmosphere. When her husband built her a greenhouse, she was in seventh heaven. They loved the serenity of their huge yard and nature. Filling feeders and supplying homes for their many feathered friends. They took great pride in working together, doing whatever had to be done. They made a great team. When she found time she loved reading and jigsaw puzzles.

 In 1979 her husband retired from his job in Oshkosh and quit farming. At that time a cottage was purchased near Pelican Lake. It was there they continued their active lifestyle cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and exploring the countryside. Great memories were made with neighbors, Howard, and Jane Dobzil. Lots of fishing and frying up the catch. They remained lifelong friends along with others, Jeanett and Owen Kester and their relatives. There it was card playing and lots of laughter. When Lillian had summers off from UWO they traveled by car, trailer, and air visiting 38 states, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas and seven European countries. In 2004 the farm was sold (in the family since 1858) and moved back to Oshkosh. On January 8th,2010 when Arthur passed, Lillian moved to Evergreen. All through the years she continued sending cards and letters to friends, family, and EAA lodgers. This gave her much pleasure and contentment. Her thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated.

Preceding her in death was her husband, parents, John and Annie (Lang) Noe; sister Betty Meyer; stepson James Williams and Patricia Worm.

She is survived by her daughter Linda H; son Clyde (CJ) Williams; stepson R. W.; granddaughter Jill and her sons Holden, Cal and numerous step grandchildren and step great grandchildren. Lillian was sincerely grateful to her daughter Linda son C.J. and special friends, Renee Schweitzer, April Hinke, Bill and Jodi Leu, as well as Dennis and Carol Bostwich. Also grateful to her three step granddaughters, Kim Hoffman, Beth Lux, and Sue Ullman for their help to make her feel special. Lillian was also very happy to reconnect with her step grandson Johnathan and wife Belinda and their children Jacob and Hannah for all they did for her from Alabama.

The family would like to express our thanks for the wonderful companionship, compassion, help and care given by Evergreen Retirement Community while Lillian was a resident there and all the others who helped her later in life.

A celebration of life will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 15, 2025 at the Evergreen Retirement Community chapel- 1130 N. Westfield St. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service. Then she will join her husband at Lake View.