Terry Eugene Williams

Terry Eugene Williams, 68, of El Dorado Springs, passed away Friday, May 21, 2021 at 11:52 a.m. at his home with his wife by his side. Terry had been diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer on Feb. 19, 2021. Terry, AKA “Uncle Tune,” was born June 17, 1952, in Gordon, NE, the third of five children belonging to Donald Eugene and Maebreecia Lorraine “Beebe” (Knowles) Williams. Terry attended Washington School and Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia.

In his early years of employment, he worked at Imperial Gas Station, Turley Brothers, and Duke, all of Sedalia. On June 16, 1973, Terry married Carol Elaine Cooke in Sedalia to this union, one son was born, Eugene Glenn Williams, in 1976. Terry and Carol moved to Borger, TX in 1973, and he was employed by B&C Well Service. At that time in life he thought he was “living in high cotton” making $500 a week. In 1976, Terry was employed by Argonaut Energy in Amarillo, TX, as a company pumper. He owned his own contract pumping business, C&T Consulting, contract pumping wells from 1987 to 2012. He would oversee wells in Texas, the Western Oklahoma Panhandle, and Kansas. With more than 40 years of oil field experience, Terry had been employed with 21 large gas and oil companies including but not limited to Mesa Petroleum, Whiting Oil and Gas, Sampson Resources, EOG Resources, Merchantson Exploration, Marlin Oil and Conoco-Phillips. Terry retired in 2017.

On Sept. 29, 2012, Terry married Tammy Lea (Lamb) Gillette in Lamar.

Survivors include his daughter-in-law, Mindy Williams, Hutchinson, KS; step-children, Katie Nikodim (Matthew) El Dorado Springs, Johnathan Brasher (Amanda), Louisburg, Gregory Brasher, Stockton. Papa Terry has five grandbabies that he absolutely adored. Morgan and Jakob Nikodim, Jadyn, Eli and Charlene Brasher. Sister, Teresa Wiser, Warsaw; brother, Ronnie Williams (Willy), Smithton; half-brother, Gene Williams, Sedalia; brother-in-law, Rick Lamb (Sharon), Webster, NY; father-in-law, William Lamb, Nevada; as well as a large extended family.

Terry accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior on March 30, 2021 and was baptized on April 4, 2021, in Warsaw.

Terry was preceded in death by his wife, Carol, on Dec. 13, 2008, and his son, Gene, on Oct. 29, 2020; both parents, Don in 1988, and Beebe in 2010; maternal grandparents, Luther and Della Knowles; paternal grandparents, Ralph and Ruth “Mae” Williams; eldest sister, Sandy Heurman, in 1974; brother-in-law, Jack Heurman, in 2015; elder sister, Donna Maacks, Feb. 16, 2021; brother-in-law, Donnie Wiser, in 2004; and step-mother, Phyllis Williams in 2003.

Services will begin at 1 p.m. Friday, May 28, at Heckart Funeral Home, Sedalia, with Reverend Van Mellen, Sr. officiating. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Highland Sacred Gardens.

Memorials may be given to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Shriner’s Hospital for Children, or the Williams family fund.