The funeral service will be conducted at 1:00 P.M., Sunday, March 31, 2019 at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Corner of Russell and Johnson Streets, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Burial will follow in the Oglethorpe City Cemetery, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Thelma was born April 17, 1963 in Oglethorpe, Macon County, Georgia to the late Walter Oliver, Jr. and Joyce Tookes Oliver. She acquired her high school education at the historic D. F. Douglass High School. She grew up attending the Saint Paul A.M.E. Church along with her siblings, aunts, and uncles. She was preceded in death by two of her siblings, Deborah Elaine Walker and Walter Cornelius Oliver, III.
Thelma loved her family and her community, where she was a personal health care provider for Sarah Trask for over 25 years of dedicated services.
She was united in holy matrimony to the late Dock Williams and to this union they were blessed with five children who loved and cared for her dearly, Sakema Clark (Aldean), Perry, Georgia, Melissa Oliver, Montezuma, Georgia, Lamar William (Kennisha), Warner Robins, Georgia, Fabin Williams and Tomeka Williams both of Oglethorpe, Georgia; fourteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren; four siblings, Laverne Walker (Robert), Oglethorpe, Georgia, George Steven Oliver, Miami, Florida, Vincent Oliver (Lydia) Montezuma, Georgia and Sebastian Oliver, Miami, Florida; a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.