Martha Helen (Wallace) Williams

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Martha Helen Williams (nee Wallace), 95, Tinley Park, formerly of Eldorado, passed away Sunday, July 25, 2010, at Miller Rehabilitation Center in Kankakee.

Martha was born Oct. 10, 1914, and is survived by her two daughters, Martha Ann "Marty" Howard of Bourbonnais and Beverly (John) Petro of Tinley Park; grandchildren, Brian (Tara) Howard, James (Anne) Howard, Cari Ann (Todd) Tennell, Benjamin Petro and Rebecca Petro; great-grandchildren, Leighton Howard, Andrew and Jessica Howard and Jami and Logan Tennell; her sisters, Louise Wilson of Eldorado and Margaret Nell Wilson of Tinley Park; three sisters-in-law, Ruth Ellen Wallace of Harrisburg, Rutha Gruetzmacher of Tinley Park and Shirley Hammond of Monteno; a brother-in-law, Bob Gruetzmacher of Tinley Park; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Martha was preceded in death by her husband, James Williams, whom she married May 8, 1943, as well as a sister, Mary Emily Edwards of Carmi; two brothers, Harry Wallace of Lehigh Acres, Fla., and James E. Wallace of Harrisburg; and a son-in-law, Richard Howard of Bourbonnais.

Visitation is 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, July 29, 2010, and funeral is noon Thursday at Watson Funeral Home in Eldorado. The Rev. Randy Plunkett will officiate and burial will be in Wolf Creek Cemetery.

On-line condolences may be sent at the Internet site www.watsonfuneralhome.net.