Deloria Anita Price Williams

Tremonton, UT – Deloria Anita Price Williams, wife, mother, grandma, sister and friend, 79, passed away Saturday, February 28, 2009 at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, due to complications of cancer, surrounded by her loving family. Anita was born January 5, 1930 in Samaria, ID to Deloria Ann Peterson and Evan Morse Price. She was reared and educated in Samaria and graduated from Malad High School.
She married her high school sweetheart, John Jack Leon Williams, March 12, 1951 in Samaria, ID. The marriage was later solemnized in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple December 10, 1965. John L. passed away January 31, 1990.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in various positions in the auxiliaries. She was a visiting teacher, a temple worker in the Logan Temple for many years, and served with her husband as dance directors, which they really loved. You could find Anita and John L. at every gold and green ball, square dancing or anywhere there was a dance. She was an avid Utah Jazz fan, on a bowling league, she also loved camping, reunions, crocheting and playing cards as well as playing on a ladies fast pitch soft ball team. She loved her grandchildren and enjoyed attending and supporting them in sports, dance or whatever they did. One of her greatest joys was spending time with family at cook-outs and many other family get-togethers.
She worked as a waitress for many years, delivered the Ogden Standard Examiner newspaper and retired from Thiokol.
She is survived by her three daughters: LeAnn Clark, Yvonne Bob Walton and Deloria Williams. She was Grandma Tita to her six grandchildren: Wade Jenny, Stephanie Nate, Danielle, Shane Kaylyn, Haylie Mike and Blake serving a mission in California, Arcadia and six great grandchildren. Also surviving are one sister, Bernice Lewis and one brother, Merrill Dee Price.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, four brothers: Theon, Platt, Hyrum and Ronald Price; six sisters: Clyta, Shari, Esther Mae and an infant sister Price, Eulalia Peacock and Deltha Strong; one grandson, Mark John Branz; and one great grandson, Jason Walton.
Mom we love you. Thanks for all your loving support. You will always be with us in our hearts until we meet again. "This is not goodbye, just so long."
A funeral service will by held Friday, March 6, 2009 11:00 a.m. at the Tremonton South Stake Center, 1150 South Tremont Street, Tremonton. Family and friends may call Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, 111 North 100 East, Tremonton and Friday from 9:30-10:45 at the stake center. Interment will be at the Samaria, Idaho Cemetery.