April 24, 1940 - November 11, 2005
LaJean Williams's family will commit her body to her earthly resting place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Resthaven Memorial Park. Immediately following the graveside service, her family and friends will gather to celebrate the sixty-five years of her fruitful life at the Lower Floor of Trinity Church, 7002 Canton Avenue.
LaJean passed away Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. She will lie instate today from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. at Rix Funeral Directors. LaJean was born to Loyse and Juanita Caldwell in Dalhart April 24, 1940. She graduated from Pampa High School and later received a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Social Studies from West Texas State University.
LaJean married Carter Williams Jan. 20, 1962 in Pampa. She taught elementary education and intermediate English at various schools including Whitharral, Three Way, Muleshoe, and Lubbock Independent School Districts.
LaJean Williams was the founding director of Lubbock International House of Prayer. She was one of the founders of Trinity Church's Heartline Storehouse Ministry and has served as Prayer Director for City View Christian Fellowship.
Survivors include: her husband, Carter; her son, Chad and wife Sharon; her three grandchildren, Brittany, Sheridon, and Garrett; her brothers, James and Bob Caldwell; and her sister, Margaret Watts.
Eulogy From a Friend (Al King)
When I received the
news about LaJean my mind just exploded with the countless times that Jimmy
Johnson (also deceased), LaJean and I walked, ran, skipped, hopped and sang and
whistled all the way to Horace Mann. I only wish I knew then what I am so
highly aware of now - LaJean was just the paragon of virtue, and the wonderful
impact of her own life on mine will always remain ineffable. I do not have the
words to capture the meaning of the joy and genuine agape love that she
personified. God has truly acted anonymously on all of our behalves; and no
longer will that remain a mystique … it was LaJean ... I am in great wonder of
how many
other classmates might feel the same. As I recall, Jimmy Johnson, Mary Heffner,
Charles Gurley, Jim Brown,
LaJean, Jerry McCracken, and myself were just a bunch of ordinary kids that had
wonderful fun times before, during and after school ... JEEEEEEEEZ, THESE WERE
THE VERY SOULS THAT SHAPED THE ORGAN ON , INDEED THE ETHOS OF MY LIFE.... !!!!!!
LaJean was indeed a loyal and trusted friend of mine from the first through
twelfth grades, as was her brother
with whom I attended classes later at West Texas A&M. She lived right across
the street from me on
west Francis next to her family's popular Caldwell's Drive Inn.
My father had lost all of his money in a drilling adventure, and we lived in an
old burned out Mobile service station just catty-cornered from Caldwell 's and
Kelly's Pig Hip Drive Inn. She was always lively, cheerful and outgoing, and one
day in the fourth grade when I missed school with the flu at Horace Mann she
dropped by my dilapidated and impoverished abode to deliver my grade report for
Ms. Eaton's Fourth grade class. I was embarrassed beyond belief for her seeing
our living conditions and even more so when I opened my grade report to receive
an "unappreciated F" in English. With a cheerful smile she said, "but you always
make good grades, what could possibly be wrong?" On all the other subjects I
had done OK, but not for the English class where I sat in the back of the room
and could not see those sentences that Eaton was diagramming on the board.
LaJean, whom I always called "Lajeana", suggested, "why don't you see an
optometrist". I went to see Dr. Zachary, Dianne's father, and went on to make
an "A" in that subject and a whole lot of other subjects since!!! I later
learned from Mother Teresa that it is not the "gargantuan things in life that
count but all the little things that are done with great love". Lajeana's
suggestion, along with countless other simple acts of kindness, demonstrated to
me and many others stand out as exemplary.
What I would really like to say about LaJean has already been said in scripture
and spoken many times, "A good woman is hard to find and worth far more than
diamonds". The majority of that proverb describes a virtuous woman who leads her
home with integrity, discipline, and giftedness. Like many other leaders we are
familiar with from history, the scriptures and our own life experiences, I am
extremely confident that La Jean, was a wordlessly wonderful wife and mother -
not because she tried to be one, but because of who she was. She was a leader
who had a "do it, fix it, try it, hands on value driven attitude about life and
shared her charm generously with others in word and action. Unquestionably her
human assets, attitudes, achievements and
values will receive much accolade and appreciation and will be greatly missed.
Our thoughts, meditations and prayers go out to her family and all who knew her
…with pure heart, clear conscience and sincere faith I
pray these condolences ...