Earl "Sonny" Williams

EARL JOHN “SONNY” WILLIAMS, died November 21, 2020 at the age of 90 following Covid complications.

The Williams family will receive visitors on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the LaFond-Ardoin Funeral Home of Opelousas from 9:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00 p.m. at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Washington, LA. The Reveren Matthew Higginbotham will celebrate the Mass. Rite of Committal will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Born on July 22, 1930 in Reserve, Louisiana where he lived until he left for the military and served in both the U.S. Navy and the Coast Guard. Sonny married his sweetheart, Mary, after he proposed to her on the first date. Sonny worked for NOPSI then LPNL for many years and then retired to the beloved family farm in Port Barre, Louisiana where he spent the last 25 years living the dream of caring for his land, animals, and family. Sonny’s favorite thing was to sit on his porch with friends and family particularly in the evening following a full day of work in the field.

Sonny is predeceased by his parents, Athanas E. Williams and Bertha Maus Williams and siblings, Betty Williams Deem, Athanas “Boy” Williams, and James J. Williams. Sonny is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mary Asta Williams, his beloved son, John G. Williams (Angela), his sister Mary “Kitzy ” Schiro and his grandson, John Luke Williams and was a treasured Uncle to many nieces and nephews and friend to everyone he met.

The family would like to thank the staff of Home Instead for providing not only care but companionship for Sonny and to the extraordinary nursing staff at Rapides Medical Center who went above and beyond to assure that John was by his side at the end of his worldly journey and the beginning of his heavenly one.