Billie Jean Williams Hansford

Mrs. Billie Jean McMullen Williams Hansford, 77, of Harmony Road, Elberton, wife of James Christopher “Chris” Hansford, passed away on Monday, July 27, 2020, at AnMed Health Medical Center.

Mrs. Hansford was born in California on September 25, 1942, daughter of the late William Walter McMullen and Annie Caroline Scott McMullen Smith. She was a member of Harmony Baptist Church and was retired from Head Start, Inc. in Elberton.

Survivors include her husband, Chris; daughters: Donna Daley of Elberton, Deborah and Steve Myers of North Carolina, Dian and David Stephens of Elberton, Tanya and Jeff Southerland of Clemson, SC, and Billie and Shane Floyd of Elberton; brother, Jimmy and Margaret McMullen of Antioch, CA; eleven grandchildren; nineteen great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, James Leon “Sonny” Williams, Jr.; and siblings: Joyce Evans, Carol Bond, and Pat Byers.

Funeral services celebrating her life will be held on Friday, July 31, at 11 o’clock in the Memorial Chapel of Berry Funeral Home with the Rev. Tim Adams officiating. Interment will follow in the Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery with Nick Edwards, David Stephens, Jimmy Edwards, Matthew Floyd, Luke Southerland, and Kadan Williams honored as pallbearers.

The family is at the residence and will receive friends at Berry Funeral Home from 5:00-7:00p.m. on Thursday, July 30.

Flowers are accepted and contributions may be made in her memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Those wishing may sign the online guestbook at www.berryfh.com.

Berry Funeral Home & Crematory of Elberton is respectfully in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Billie Jean McMullen Williams Hansford.