Ruth Sones Lowery

Published 2:00 pm Friday, September 6, 2013

Memorial services will be conducted for Ruth Sones Williamson Lowery, 94, at noon Saturday, September 7, 2013, at Evangeline Funeral Home, with Pastor Aaron Weido officiating. Inurnment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Columbia, Miss., privately at a later date.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until service time on Saturday.

A native of Baxterville, Miss., and resident of New Iberia, formerly of Columbia, Miss., Mrs. Lowery passed away at 1:35 a.m. on Thursday, September 5, 2013, at Camelot of Broussard.

Mrs. Lowery was a member of Temple Baptist Church. Her greatest joy was spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her daughter Nancy W. Whitley of New Iberia; one son Cliff Williamson and wife, Vickie, of New Iberia; four grandchildren Lindsay W. Rivett and husband, Ryan, Jared Williamson and wife, Crystal, Gregory Scott White and wife, Staci, and Cindy W. Stuart and husband, Odell; and eight great-grandchildren Laurie Williamson, Emmeline Williamson, Victoria Ross, Nicole White, Lyndsaye White, Katie White, Christopher Pylant and Callie Dixon.

She was preceded in death by her first husband and father of her children, Jackie Williamson; her second husband, Ed Lowery; one son Jimmy Williamson and his wife, Bobbie; one grandson Ronnie White; son-in-law Charles Whitley; her parents, Luther and Dollie Gipson Sones; and two sisters Beatrice Cardwell and Mattie Thompson.

To view online obituary, video tribute and sign the guest register, please visit www.evangelinefuneralhome.com.

Evangeline Funeral Homes Inc. of New Iberia is in charge of arrangements.