Born: Wednesday, July 7, 1886 on the old Gower farm near Centerville, Reynolds County, Missouri
Died: Wednesday, March 6, 1957 In Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri
Cause of Death: Coronary heart disease.
Age: 70 years, 8 months

Father: George W. Gowers
Mother: Luretta Johnson Gowers

Grandfather: Peter Collins Johnson
Grandmother: Susannah Crabtree Johnson

Grandfather: John Gowers
Grandmother: Eliza Laney Gowers

Siblings:
Alice Adine Gowers Rayfield
Christopher Wheatley Gowers
Missouri "Zue" Gowers Wadlow
Bertha Sedona "Donie" Gowers Brown
Grover Clifton Gowers Sr
Rebecca Charlotte "Becky" Gowers Templeman

Married Thomas Milton Williams on January 2, 1906
Milt was 16 and Lula Mae was 19.

Mother of: Golda “Goldie” (married 1st Mellie Weitmon married 2nd Arnold Conaway), Hazel (married Arthur Bearden), Lennie Mae (married Massy Davison), Mamie Marie (married 1st Elmer Callahan married 2nd James Raddatz), Ruby Jane (married Kenneth Knight), Viola J (married 1st Paul Brug married 2nd Juan Garza), Ruth L (married first Roy Martin married 2nd Edmund Wilson), Mildred Maxine (married 1st Roy Alexander married 2nd Paul Dean), June Lee married Woodrow Wilson) and Milton Junior Williams (married Catherine Pumfrey)

Grandmother of: Carl Franklin Weitmon (by adoption), Hazel Lorine (Bearden) Kohl, Pauline Marie (Bearden) Marshall, David Lee Bearden, Betty Lou (Bearden) Clubb, Ronald Davison, Donald Davison, Dorothy Davison, Mac Davison, Sue Davison, James Davison, Robert Lee Callahan, Nancy Marie (Callahan) Peal, Kenneth Claude Callahan, George Peter Knight, Diane Jane (Knight) Robertson, Charles Chester Knight, Kenneth Brug, Juanita A Garza, Richard Garza, Marilyn (Alexander) Bearden, Carolyn (Alexander) Mintner, Darlene Walton, Cheryl (Walton) Vernon, Frederick Walton, Timothy Edward Walton, Stephanie Ann Walton, Kimberly (Williams) Arment, and Barbara (Williams) Hunt.

Lula was a homemaker. She raised ten children and cared for many of her grandchildren. My grandma described her as an talented gardener. She canned her own vegetables and preserved meats. One thing that my grandmother remembers most about her was her fear of storms. She claimed that she did not wish to be buried in the Williams-Russell cemetery because she would get “blown away.” She was laid to rest on an even worse hill. Every time it stormed, she gathered her children and grandchildren and took them to the cellar where they remained until the storm passed.

One time my grandmother was visiting and got caught picking and eating strawberries out of Lula Mae’s patch. As a punishment, she was told to churn butter. Lula gave her a cup to taste the buttermilk with, but she dropped it into the churn. She then caught my grandma fishing for her cup elbow deep in the butter churn. She went to visit Lula before she died in the hospital and this was the last memory that they reminisced over.