As the sun rose on April 22, 1952, a beautiful Violet bloomed. Born to Edna Esoline Bailey and David Williams, a beautiful baby girl, in the District of Church Lincoln, Grange Hill, a parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica. She was the first of five children.
Violet Williams, affectionately called Junie by most who knew her, gave birth to four girls. Junie, being the caring person she was, wanted a better life for her four girls, thus immigrated to Canada in 1983. Her desire was not fully realized because of the various challenges that she encountered. She struggled a great deal, and worked very hard to provide for her family.
Violet was a very spiritual person and always sought to walk with the Lord. She loved to pray and worship God. She was always praying for the success of others. One of her favourite lines when asked how she was doing, was “I’m giving God thanks for my life.”
Violet was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Then in 2013, after a chance meeting with someone from the Reform Movement, she started receiving Bible studies from Br. Morris Lowe. She was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church Reform Movement on July 27, 2014. She is remembered as being very zealous in worshiping and praising God. All who met her knew of her great love for God, as her life was a witness to this deep connection.
On August 15, she fell ill and was taken to the hospital. She continued to praise and thank God from her hospital bed. On August 16, in the early hours of the morning, she quietly passed from this life, in the arms of her best friend, Jesus.
“Death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn is coming.”