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WILLIAMS, Tommi Beth, 20, went home to our Lord's waiting arms after a courageous battle with colon cancer on March 10, 2011.

She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Patty Williams; and great-grandmother, Dolly Johnson. Surviving to cherish her memory are her parents, Thomas Williams and Melissa Williams; her sister, Kristen; her brother, Joshua; grandparents, Earl and Sheryll Wade, and Charles Williams; aunt, Kimberly (Tony) Waldron; aunt, Cynthia Wade-Jones; uncle, Michael (Jeana) Wade; uncle, Doug Wade; uncle, Tim (Ronnie) Wyatt; along with her loving cousins and a multitude of friends who will miss her and her lively spirit greatly.

Tommi Beth graduated from Goochland High School in 2008. A memorial service to honor her, a born fighter, will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2011, at 4 p.m. at Cold Harbor Road Church of Christ, 6856 Cold Harbor Rd., Mechanicsville, Va. 23111.

Her aunts, Cindy and Kimie, have a special request to help share your memories with the parents: if you have a picture or a memory to share, there will be a place set up with envelopes and paper for you to give a picture and/or write a quick memorable note that will be bound in a book for her parents.

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Submitted by Marian Zang G-75-42

Tommi Elizabeth (Beth) died on Thursday, March 10, 2011 in Highland Springs, Virginia. She was born September 30, 1990 in Virginia. She died too soon, not yet reaching her 21st birthday.

Tommi Beth was an eighth generation descendant of Franz von Gruner and Katharina Bergmann, descending through the Wenzel / Ben / Helen Gruner Johnson / Bill Johnson, Jr. / Sheryll Johnson Wade / Melissa Wade Williams line.

Family members in many parts of the country became interested in her when they learned she was the victim of terminal colon cancer. Sheryll, her grandmother, has kept our Gruner family up to date as the illness progressed.

Many prayers were said for her and her family, but she passed from our midst with the same peaceful grace with which she was blessed.

Melissa, Tommi Beth’s mother, is staying with Sheryll at present.

E-mail may be sent to popwade01 at msn.com
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, March 19, 4 PM at their church.

In lieu of flowers, the families have suggested a donation to the Colon Cancer Society or the American Cancer Society.