Icie Williamson

Icie Lois Laney Williamson, age 77, of Ivy Log Road, Warne, NC died Monday, May 14, 2007 at her home.

A native of Cherokee County, NC, she was a lifelong resident of Cherokee County and Clay County, NC and had worked as a seamstress at Clayco Mfg. She was a member of the Little Brasstown Baptist Church and enjoyed carving and sewing quilts. Mrs. Williamson was a daughter of the late Floyd Laney and Gertrude Elizabeth Hartness Laney and was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Leslie Williamson; and four brothers, Jake Laney, James Floyd Laney, Leon Luke Laney and Johnny L. Laney.

She is survived by a son, Floyd Williamson of Warne, NC; three daughters, Mary Ruth English and husband Billy English of Warne, NC, Jo-Ann Shaw and husband John Shaw of Hopatcong, New Jersey and Muriel Williamson of Hillsborough, NC; a brother, Taft Laney of Marion, NC; four sisters, Georgie Tweed of Lakeside, Oregon, Dorothy

Davis of Macon,

Georgia, Julie Kilby

of Murphy, NC and

Margaret Tweed of

Andrews, NC;

three grandchildren,

Katherine E n g l i s h , J e r e m i a h

Williamson and

D e i r d r e

Williamson; and

one great-granddaughter,

Tessa

Tarantino.

Pallbearers were:

Larry Dockery, Danny Owens, Floyd Williamson, Jeremiah Williamson, Steve Duquenoy and John Shaw.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made In Memory of Icie Lois Laney Williamson to the Little Brasstown Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, P. O. Box 12, Brasstown, NC 28902.

You may send tributes to the Williamson family at www.mem.com.

Townson Rose Funeral Home was in charge of all arrangements.