Joan Margaret Williams was born on April 16, 1932, in Hicksville, New York, to Roland Wenner and Helen Zatorski Wenner. She died at her son’s home in Lawton, Oklahoma, on Saturday, April 7. Joan grew up in Hicksville and went to nursing school after graduation from high school. Joan met her future husband, Cecil Williams while he was serving in the United States Navy and was stationed at the Brooklyn Naval yard.