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Ivy May Williams

Funeral services were held on 03/11/2022 at Bethel Baptist Church following at Greenwood Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. Ivy May Williams was born on May 21, 1925, to William M. and Nannie C. Taylor in Hennessey, Oklahoma. Ivy May was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters: Hortense Taylor and Hycinthia […]

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Thelonious Monk

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