Obituary of Reba Key Williams

Ms. Reba Roslyn Key Williams, a longtime resident of Ozark, passed away Wednesday morning, January 8, 2025 with her son, Sammy, at her side. She was 94 years old. Funeral services for Ms. Williams will be 2:30 P.M. Saturday, January 11, 2025, in the Chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark with Reverend Danny Williams officiating. Interment will follow in Westview Memorial Cemetery, Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing. The family will receive friends Saturday at the funeral home in Ozark from 1:00 P.M. until service time. Ms. Reba, as she was affectionately known, was born on September 13, 1930 in the Skipperville Community to the late James Comer Key and Annie Maude Gassett Key. She graduated from Dale County High School. Ms. Reba loved to talk about all the years she worked in the fields with her family while she was growing up. One thing for sure, she was never afraid of hard work. Following high school, she spent several years working at Phillips-Van Heusen in Ozark. She had an amazing talent as a seamstress, and soon moved on to create beautiful window treatments from her business, Reba’s Fabrics which was located in Dothan, Alabama. Ms. Reba loved the church, and was very active for many years, both at Southside Baptist Church in Ozark and Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Ozark. Another certainty about Ms. Reba; she loved her family with all her heart. She loved to talk about them, brag on them, and spoil them. Her last three years were spent at Westside Terrace where she received love and care from so many including a special lady who would spend at least six hours a week with her to keep her company and tend to her “social needs,” Cheryl Pelham. DaySpring Hospice was also very attentive and provided much encouragement and comfort these last months. She was preceded in death by her late husband of 55 years, Charles Bennett Williams; two sisters, Mary Olive Dykes and Jean Sowell; and two brothers, James Curtis Key and John Wilton Key. Survivors include one son, Sammy Williams (Carol); three grandchildren, Ben Williams (Emily) of Austin, TX, Emily Ryan (Matt) of Oxford, MS, and Matthew Williams of Birmingham, AL; two great-grandsons , Ford Williams and Jay Williams (Austin); one great-granddaughter, Isla Ryan (Oxford); and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Key of Carrollton, GA. Several nephews and nieces also survive. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her memory to The Gideons, P. O. Box 291, Ozark, Alabama 36361.