Joann Hibben Williams

Joann (Hibben) Williams was born on April 21, 1938, to T.D. Hibben and Leoma (Trimble) Hibben in Spaulding, Oklahoma. She passed away on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the age of 85. She was a member of the Choctaw Tribe.

Joann was the oldest of four children and the family made their home in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She graduated from Shawnee High School in 1956. She was a talented artist and her art teacher at Shawnee High School got her a job at Hallmark Greeting Cards in Kansas City, Mo. Joann worked at Hallmark helping design greeting cards as an artist for one year after graduation before returning to Shawnee to marry her high school sweetheart, Frank Williams. Joann and Frank made their home on the south side of Oklahoma City. They had two children, Frank (Rick) and Carol.

Joann worked for various printing and publishing companies in Oklahoma City for many years as a commercial artist. After her retirement, she moved to Meeker, Oklahoma to be closer to her family. She lived in Meeker for 20 years helping her daughter at the local family-owned newspaper. She spent the last two and a half years living at the Chandler Nursing Home. Joann was an avid reader and enjoyed volunteering at the Meeker Public Library. She enjoyed spending time with her family, watching OU and Dallas Cowboy Football games and getting her hair and nails done.

She is preceded in death by her parents, T.D. and Leoma Hibben; one sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Don Rhodes; and one sister-in-law, Kathy Hibben.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Carol and David Jenkins of Chandler; her son, Frank (Rick) Williams, Jr. of Tulsa; one granddaughter, Hollie and her husband Nik Majdan of Tulsa; two great-grandchildren, Everett and Aveline Majdan, also of Tulsa; sister and brother-in-law, Patsy and Grant Rhodes of Stratford; brother, Tommy Hibben of Shawnee; many nieces and nephews; and through the marriage of Carol and David, she enjoyed and loved many other extended family members.