Luster Jay Williams Jr.

Luster J Williams, Jr. was born in Oklahoma City to Luster Williams and Lela Mae (Golding) on
May 23, 1930. He resided in Oklahoma City until 1966, when he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma,
where he died at age 92 on March 26, 2023.
Luster is survived by his wife of 69 years, Lena Faye (Webb) Williams, his son Lonnie Williams
and his daughter Pamela Edwards and husband Larry. He has five grandchildren: John Edwards
and wife Janna, Jared Williams, Kayla Williams, Lisa Albers and husband Glen and Lara Burton
and husband Charlie. And his favorite...10 great grandchildren.
He is proceeded in death by his daughter, Barbara Ann Williams, both his parents and step
parents, Mary Williams and Floyd Kendrick, his brother, Howard Williams, his sisters, Jerry
Padberg and Carol Margaret Kendrick, and oh so many friends. Luster was a lifelong Southern
Baptist serving as deacon, greeter, choir member, and pulpit committee member. He has
attended First Baptist Church, Tulsa with his wife for the last 40 years.
You've never met a more positive person than Luster Williams, who rarely complained about
anything, (well, anything but politics and other drivers). So, it might surprise you to learn about
the challenges he faced during his formative years. Early on, his parents divorced, leaving his
mom to raise both him and his two younger siblings. When Luster was 6 years old he
contracted polio, which left him with a permanent leg disability. A few years later his family of
four plus his grandmother were living in a kitchen while they rented out the remainder of the
house. That was until his little brother burned the house down with a candle in the closet.
After that, at age 8, he took a train ride across the country, solo, to live with an Aunt and Uncle
in Oregon for a while. When he was 11, he spent two years in an orphanage, until his mom was
able to care for them again. He lived through both the dust bowl and the great depression.
So now you know what it takes to create the happiest person on the planet, because that's who
he was. Always happy, always positive, always wanting everyone else to be happy too. He
worked hard, loved well, and created a great life for his wife and kids.
His work life started early, first as a paper delivery boy on his bike, then a soda jerk at the drug
store, he also delivered BBQ from his dad's restaurant, fixed TV's, delivered telegrams, and
finally settled into his lifelong career as a printer. He was a printer and then manager of the
print shop at Amoco for 33 years. After retiring from Amoco, he and his wife opened their own
print shop and enjoyed all the ups and downs of small business ownership. And still, the
happiest man on the planet. He adored his wife and children and grandchildren and was a
totally devoted husband, father, son and brother. Family was everything to him. Well, not
everything. All his life he was surrounded by friends too. He made friends out of everyone;
neighbors, church people, work colleagues, nurses, doctors, total strangers...
No one could escape his infectious joy.