Alene Williams

Alene White Williams, peacefully passed from this life into heaven on August 20, 2016. Alene was born on February 26, 1926 in Cabarrus County, NC. She was the daughter of the late Benjamin Allison White and Mazie Hill White.
Alene was born and raised in Cabarrus County. She was a 1943 graduate of Winecoff High School, and a graduate of Mitchell Community College. Alene married Robert Lewis “Cotton” Williams in 1969. She work for the Cabarrus County Agricultural Extension Service as a secretary until her retirement in March of 1985. Alene loved working the Cabarrus County Fair each year while utilizing her excellent recordkeeping skills for all the fair entries. In addition, she and her husband loved to travel to the beach in their motorhome with the rest of the family.
In addition to her parents, Alene was preceded in death by loving husband Robert “Cotton” Lewis Williams, and her sisters Doris White, Lorene White Wise and Elsie White Setzer, and brother Glenn Hampton White and special sister-in-law Ann White. She is also survived by her nieces and nephews, Kelli Allison Knoble and her husband, David, of Charlotte, NC; Eric Hampton White and his wife Liz, of Burke Va.; Cindy Setzer Rufty, of Kannapolis, NC and Cathey Wise Billings and her husband Kenneth, of China Grove, NC. Also surviving are numerous beloved grandnieces and grandnephews.
The family would like to thank all the loving and caring staff at Morningside of Concord over the past several years.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at Wilkinson Funeral Home located at 100 Branchview Dr. NE, Concord, NC 28025. The family will receive friends at the funeral home immediately following the service. A private family interment will be held following the service at Carolina Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Alene’s memory to the Concord Historic Cabarrus Association, Inc., The Concord Museum, 65 Union St S, Concord, NC 28025.