Carolyn Bergerson Bartholomew Williams

Funeral Service: Monday, October 22, 2007, at 11:00 am at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.

Interment: Custer County Cemetery.

Carolyn E. Williams, 83, died Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Carolyn was born November 30, 1923 in Chicago, IL to Bror and Carrie Bergerson, and raised in Montana where she graduated from Custer County High School in 1942.Carolyn grew up on a ranch near Biddle with her family. She loved riding horses. She enjoyed music and played the accordion when she was young. Carolyn was a bank teller at The Miles City Bank for many years. She was a brave mom letting her son do science fair projects that included raising snakes in their home and experiments launching amateur rockets. She later lived with her husband in Joliet, IL, Iowa City, IA, Sun City,AZ, and Las Cruces, NM. Carolyn loved being together with her family and friends. She wrote wonderful letters and enjoyed keeping everyone updated on family happenings. She always had many pictures of her loved one's around her.Carolyn enjoyed traveling with her husband and visiting out of town relatives. Carolyn loved holding babies and her grandchildren will tell you she gave great back scratches. She loved her cats; Charlie & Lucy, watching them play and sit on her lap. Carolyn will be dearly missed by her family and friends.

Her survivors include her husband of 42 years, Clifford C. Williams, her son, Gary (Dotti) Bartholomew of Des Plaines, IL, her step children, Emily Guthrie of Evanston, IL, Annette Reda of Norfolk, VA, Stanley Williams of Tempe, AZ, her sister Geraldine (Keith) Wilson of Clatskanie, OR, her brother, Bill (Bonnie) Bergerson of Miles City, 8grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Bror and Carrie Bergerson (nee Westman), her sister, Lorraine Scofield, her brother Bruce Bergerson, her former husband Charles Vernon Bartholomew.

Memorial services will be Monday, October 22, 2007, at 11:00 am at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will follow at Custer County Cemetery. Condolences may be made to the family at www.stevensonandsons.com. Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.