Laura Belle Wells Harrison Williams, 22 October 1908

Laura Belle Wells Harrison Williams, 94, was born October 22, 1908 at Woodruff, Oneida County, ID. She died February 16, 2003 at Logan, Cache County, UT at the age of 94.

Her parents were Lawrence Ray Wells and Annie Arbella Bell.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Parry Dredge Harrison and Arthur LaVen Williams, and three of her eight children, Harrison Fisher, James Wells Harrison and Edwin E. Harrison. She is survived by her sister, Margaret Helen Jones Bingham of Logan, UT; and a brother, Floyd Lawrence Wells of Hailey, ID; and five of her eight children, Lawrence, james (Sharla) Harrison of Bountiful, UT, Parry DeLoss (Rudy) Harrison of Caldwell, ID; Emma Belle (Ward) Orwin of Decatur, IL; Eldena (Eldon) Smith of Tulare, CA; and Rose Ann (Sheldon) Flicker of Auburn, CA. Laura was step mother to seven Williams children: Charlotte (Deloy) Giles, Ruth (Bill) Thomas, Alaina (Ray) Burrows, Arthur D. (Vee Ann) Williams, LaRetta (Griff) Davis, Elease King and Timothy D. (Ellen) Williams. Laura also has 39 grandchildren; 76 great grandchildren and 28 great-great grandchildren.

She lived in Malad, ID until 1958, in Salt Lake City from 1958-61, in Raymond, Bear lake County, ID from 1961-72 and in Logan, UT since 1972.

She had been an active and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all of her life. She had served as Primary president as well as in the Relief Society presidency, Young Women’s president and counselor, gospel doctrine teacher in Sunday School, and she did family history extraction for about seven years. She had also served in many other positions. She served on the county fair board for Bear Lake County for several years. She had been ward organist and played for a dance band for a while.

After her first husband, Parry Harrison was killed in 1955 in a tractor accident, she worked as a clerk at the Rainbow Gift Shop, then at Malad Lumber and Hardware Co. as a bookkeeper and then at Deseret Book in Salt Lake City. She married A. LaVen Williams in 1961 and they moved to a ranch at Raymond, ID. In 1972 they sold the ranch and moved to Logan, UT. LaVen died in 1978 and Laura was once again a widow.

She had been a great strength and an example to her family and all who knew her.

Funeral services will be held February 21, 2003 in the Malad LDS Second Ward Chapel. Burial will follow at the Malad City Cemetery.