ON JUNE 14, 2022, GOD CALLED INTO ETERNAL REST OUR BELOVED MOTHER REESE MAE WILLIAMS. MOTHER REESE WAS BORN ON APRIL 7, 1923 TO THE LATE DEACON SAMUEL D. AND OLIVE M. GRAYSON OF TRIANGLE, VA. SHE RECEIVED HER EDUCATION IN PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY SCHOOLS AND GRADUATED FROM THE MANASSAS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL (JENNIE DEAN) ON MAY 30, 1942 AFTER WHICH SHE WENT TO WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (DEPT. OF THE NAVY/UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS) REESE WAS RAISED TO SERVE THE LORD AND BAPTISED AT THE AGE OF 16. TWO YEARS LATER, SHE JOINED MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH OF TRIANGLE, VA. SHE LOVED THE LORD AND SERVED FAITHFULLY UNTIL HER HEALTH DECLINED. SHE WAS DEVOTED TO MANY MINISTRIES DURING HER LIFE AND SERVED IN MULTIPLE POSITIONS AT LENGTH. SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS WERE PRESIDENT OF THE PASTORS AID MINISTRY, LEADER OF THE YOUTH DEPARTMENT (25 YRS.), SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL (36 YRS.), SECRETARY AND MEMBER OF THE DEACONESS MINISTRY (20 AND 50 YRS. RESPECTIVELY), CHURCH FINANCIAL SECRETARY, AND MEMBER OF HER BELOVED HEAVENLY LIGHT CHORUS (50+ YRS.). SHE FAVORED THE 23RD PSALM, THE COLOR PINK AND THE SONG – JESUS IS LOVE BY LIONEL RICHIE ON MAY 22, 1946, REESE MARRIED CHARLES EMERY WILLIAMS AND FROM THIS UNION WERE BORN TWO SONS, THE LATE LEONARD E. WILLIAMS AND VERNON W. WILLIAMS, SR. REESE WAS A LOVING AND DEVOTED WIFE FOR 55 YEARS. REESE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, CHARLES E. WILLIAMS, HER SON, LEONARD E. WILLIAMS,SR., HER GRANDSON, VERNON W. WILLIAMS, JR., HER GRAND DAUGHTER, LISA COTTON, AND HER THREE SISTERS - MAMIE JETER (VAN), NAOMI GRAYSON AND CHARLOTTE SWINT (JOSEPH). SHE LEAVES LOVING MEMORIES TO HER SON, VERNON WILLIAMS (TARA), DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, AMANDA WILLIAMS AND A HOST OF CHERISHED GRAND CHILDEN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, LOVING AND DEVOTED NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND WONDERFUL COUSINS AND FRIENDS.