{"id":448,"date":"2015-05-19T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T02:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/?p=448"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:20:40","slug":"iphc-remembers-mrs-jean-williams-1926-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/2015\/05\/19\/iphc-remembers-mrs-jean-williams-1926-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"IPHC Remembers Mrs. Jean Williams, 1926-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jean<\/a>Bonnie Eugenia Ashburn Williams (Jean Williams), 88, of Greenville, NC and Oklahoma City, OK, went home to be with the Lord on May 18, 2015 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

A visitation will be held at Vondel Smith Funeral Home on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Oklahoma City, OK with family greeting friends from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Funeral services will follow at Greenville First PHC in Greenville, NC on Sunday, May 24, at 3:00 p.m. Visitation will be held Saturday, May 23, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at \u00a0Wilkerson Funeral Home<\/a> located at 2100 East Fifth Street, Greenville, NC 27858.<\/p>\n

Presiding Bishop Doug Beacham recalls, “Mrs. Jean Williams served with great dignity and grace as the first lady of IPHC World Missions and as the wife of the General Superintendent. She faithfully stood by her husband, the late Bishop J. Floyd Williams, during his years of leadership in the IPHC. I personally remember her genuine kindness and hospitality. In the middle 1960s in Franklin Springs, my mother was hospitalized with a back injury. During those days, Mrs. Williams prepared a wonderful steak lunch for my sister and brother and me. I have never forgotten how good that steak tasted! Her love for Christ and this church never wavered. The prayers of this entire denomination are extended to her dear family.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mrs. Williams was born May 29, 1926, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was the only child of Florence Eugenia and Lawrence Amos Ashburn.<\/p>\n

Jean had an unconventional childhood. After her mother was saved and called into the ministry, she traveled with another lady minister, Grace Hope, and they held services wherever they were invited. They ministered as a teacher\/preacher team, staying in the homes of different people. Jean seldom saw her father, who lived in Texas. He died during her pre-teen years. Following his death, Jean\u2019s mother married Rucker McCartney. Together, they pastored churches in Oklahoma and Eastern North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Jean\u2019s earliest recollections of church was at the Sunshine Mission in Oklahoma City. At the mission Sunday school, Jean learned Bible verses and was introduced to Jesus Christ. As a child of five or six years old, she knelt at an altar in the mission and asked Jesus into her heart. From an early age she realized she lacked any recognizable talents to use in serving Christ, so she determined simply to be a Christian. \u201cThat\u2019s what I could be for Jesus,\u201d she wrote in a book of memories, \u201cand that is all I ever wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Jean was 14 years old, her mother enrolled her at Emmanual Institute in Franklin Springs, Georgia. She completed the 10th and 11th grades there. At the institute, she met Julius Floyd (Flip) Williams. They were married on August 19, 1943, in her mother\u2019s backyard in Edmond, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Since Floyd was from North Carolina, the young couple moved to Raleigh, where they pastored the Pentecostal Holiness Church there for a year. They served several churches from 1943 to 1962, including Raleigh (1943-44), Bethel and Merritts Chapel (1945-44), Williamston (1946-47), Wilson (1947-1951), and others.<\/p>\n

Jean served as a member of the North Carolina Lifeliners (youth board) and actively participated in the organization of the first youth camps in the North Carolina Conference. She was also involved with the Woman\u2019s Auxiliary (WA) and was chosen as the first WA vice-president of the North Carolina Conference. Later, she was elected president of the organization.<\/p>\n

During those years, she wrote and\/or edited several pieces of curriculum. As a staff writer for Advocate Press Sunday School Literature, She wrote the denomination\u2019s first Nursery Teacher. She also developed a denominational teaching course for the junior (pre-teen) division of LifeLiners and served as contributing editor for the North Carolina Evangel, The Helping Hand, and PHYS (Pentecostal Holiness Youth Society) magazines.<\/p>\n

When her husband was elected to the Executive Board of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1962, the family moved from North Carolina to Franklin Springs, Georgia. In 1969, he was ordained and titled Bishop of the denomination. When the denominational headquarters relocated from Northeast Georgia to Oklahoma City in 1974, the Bishop\u2019s family also relocated. He served in that role from 1969 until 1981. As the church\u2019s First Lady, Jean was the denominational director of Ministers\u2019 Wives Fellowship from 1977 until 1981.<\/p>\n

The Williams family returned to North Carolina in 1984, but wherever they lived, Jean was busy serving and making a difference in the lives of people around her. At the time of death, Jean was living in North Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

Bishop Julius Floyd Williams died on March 27, 1994.<\/p>\n

Jean has three sons: J. Floyd Williams, Jr. (Sarah Cooper) of Fayetteville, North Carolina; James Ashley Williams (Connie Mash), of Oklahoma City, and Jonathan Benjamin Williams, who lives in Newborn, North Carolina. She also has six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

In a written report to the North Carolina Conference, Jean essentially recorded her own epitaph with these words: \u201cI would like it said of me that I desired early in life to be conformed to the image of Christ and that I prayed for His image to be branded in me\u2026 I desired to know and be known by others [as one who] belonged to the Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonnie Eugenia Asburn Williams was faithful to that goal and finished well.<\/p>\n

The family of Mrs. Williams is requesting contributions to the Falcon Children\u2019s Home in lieu of flowers. Please send your memorial gift designated Williams Memorial<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Falcon Children\u2019s Home
\nP.O. Box 39 Falcon, NC 28342
\nOffice: 910-980-1065
\nhttp:\/\/www.falconchildrenshome.com\/donate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Research by: Shirley G. Spencer
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El Obispo Doug Beacham recuerda: "La Sra. Jean Williams sirvi\u00f3 con gran dignidad y gracia como la primera dama de las Misiones Mundiales de la IPHC y como la esposa del Superintendente General. Ella permaneci\u00f3 fiel junto a su esposo, el difunto Obispo J. Floyd Williams, durante Sus a\u00f1os de liderazgo en el IPHC. Personalmente recuerdo su amabilidad y hospitalidad genuinas. A mediados de la d\u00e9cada de 1960 en Franklin Springs, mi madre fue hospitalizada por una lesi\u00f3n en la espalda. Durante esos d\u00edas, la Sra. Williams prepar\u00f3 un maravilloso almuerzo de bistec para mi hermana y hermano y yo. Nunca olvid\u00e9 lo bueno que era el bistec. Su amor por Cristo y por esta iglesia nunca vacil\u00f3. Las oraciones de toda esta denominaci\u00f3n se extienden a su querida familia ". <\/blockquote> La Sra. Williams naci\u00f3 el 29 de mayo de 1926 en Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ella fue la \u00fanica hija de Florence Eugenia y Lawrence Amos Ashburn. Jean tuvo una infancia poco convencional. Despu\u00e9s de que su madre se salv\u00f3 y fue llamada al ministerio, ella viaj\u00f3 con otra ministra, Grace Hope, y ellos celebraron servicios donde fueron invitadas. Ellos ministraron como un equipo de maestros \/ predicadores, qued\u00e1ndose en los hogares de diferentes personas. Jean rara vez ve\u00eda a su padre, que viv\u00eda en Texas. \u00c9l muri\u00f3 durante sus a\u00f1os pre-adolescentes. Tras su muerte, la madre de Jean se cas\u00f3 con Rucker McCartney. Juntos, pastorearon iglesias en Oklahoma y el este de Carolina del Norte. Los primeros recuerdos de la iglesia de Jean fueron en la Sunshine Mission en Oklahoma City. En la escuela dominical de la misi\u00f3n, Jean aprendi\u00f3 versos de la Biblia y fue presentado a Jesucristo. Como una ni\u00f1a de cinco o seis a\u00f1os de edad, se arrodill\u00f3 ante un altar en la misi\u00f3n y le pidi\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas que entrara en su coraz\u00f3n. Desde temprana edad, se dio cuenta de que carec\u00eda de talentos reconocibles para usar en el servicio a Cristo, por lo que decidi\u00f3 simplemente ser cristiana. "Eso es lo que podr\u00eda ser para Jes\u00fas", escribi\u00f3 en un libro de recuerdos, "y eso es todo lo que siempre quise ser". Cuando Jean ten\u00eda 14 a\u00f1os, su madre la inscribi\u00f3 en el Instituto Emmanual en Franklin Springs, Georgia. Ella complet\u00f3 los grados 10 y 11 all\u00ed. En el instituto, conoci\u00f3 a Julius Floyd (Flip) Williams. Se casaron el 19 de agosto de 1943 en el patio trasero de su madre en Edmond, Oklahoma. Como Floyd era de Carolina del Norte, la joven pareja se mud\u00f3 a Raleigh, donde pastorearon la Iglesia de Santidad Pentecostal durante un a\u00f1o. Sirvieron en varias iglesias desde 1943 hasta 1962, incluyendo Raleigh (1943-44), Bethel and Merritts Chapel (1945-44), Williamston (1946-47), Wilson (1947-1951), y otros. Jean fue miembro de los Lifeliners de Carolina del Norte (junta juvenil) y particip\u00f3 activamente en la organizaci\u00f3n de los primeros campamentos juveniles en la Conferencia de Carolina del Norte. Tambi\u00e9n particip\u00f3 en el Auxiliar de la Mujer (WA) y fue elegida como la primera vicepresidenta de la Conferencia de Carolina del Norte en Washington. M\u00e1s tarde, fue elegida presidenta de la organizaci\u00f3n. Durante esos a\u00f1os, ella escribi\u00f3 y \/ o edit\u00f3 varios curr\u00edculos. Como escritora del personal de Advocate Press Sunday School Literature, escribi\u00f3 la primera maestra de guarder\u00eda de la denominaci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n desarroll\u00f3 un curso de ense\u00f1anza denominacional para la divisi\u00f3n junior (preadolescente) de LifeLiners y se desempe\u00f1\u00f3 como editora colaboradora de las revistas North Carolina Evangel, The Helping Hand y PHYS (Pentecostal Holiness Youth Society). Cuando su esposo fue elegido miembro de la Junta Ejecutiva de la Iglesia de Santidad Pentecostal en 1962, la familia se mud\u00f3 de Carolina del Norte a Franklin Springs, Georgia. En 1969, fue ordenado y titulado Obispo de la denominaci\u00f3n. Cuando las oficinas centrales denominacionales se mudaron del noreste de Georgia a la ciudad de Oklahoma en 1974, la familia del Obispo tambi\u00e9n se mud\u00f3. Sirvi\u00f3 en ese cargo desde 1969 hasta 1981. Como Primera Dama de la iglesia, Jean fue el director denominacional de Ministers 'Wives Fellowship desde 1977 hasta 1981. La familia Williams regres\u00f3 a Carolina del Norte en 1984, pero dondequiera que vivieran, Jean estaba ocupada sirviendo y haciendo una diferencia en las vidas de las personas a su alrededor. En el momento de la muerte, Jean viv\u00eda en la ciudad de Oklahoma Norte. El obispo Julius Floyd Williams muri\u00f3 el 27 de marzo de 1994. Jean tiene tres hijos: J. Floyd Williams, Jr. (Sarah Cooper) de Fayetteville, Carolina del Norte; James Ashley Williams (Connie Mash), de Oklahoma City, y Jonathan Benjamin Williams, quien vive en Newborn, Carolina del Norte. Ella tambi\u00e9n tiene seis nietos y dos bisnietos. En un informe escrito a la Conferencia de Carolina del Norte, Jean esencialmente registr\u00f3 su propio epitafio con estas palabras: "Quisiera que dijera de m\u00ed que deseaba desde muy temprana edad que se ajustara a la imagen de Cristo y que rec\u00e9 por su imagen para ser marcado en m\u00ed ... Deseaba saber y ser conocido por otros [como alguien que] pertenec\u00eda al Se\u00f1or Jesucristo ". Bonnie Eugenia Asburn Williams fue fiel a esa meta y termin\u00f3 bien. La familia de la Sra. Williams est\u00e1 solicitando contribuciones al Hogar de Ni\u00f1os Falcon en lugar de flores. Por favor env\u00ede su regalo conmemorativo designado Williams Memorial<\/em> . Falcon Children's Home PO Box 39 Falcon, NC 28342 Oficina: 910-980-1065 http:\/\/www.falconchildrenshome.com\/donate\/<\/a>
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