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Funeral service will be 1:00 P.M. on Friday, January 5, 2024, at Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, 6761 Wrightsville Avenue. Burial will follow in Calvary Memorial Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 5:30 o 8:00 P.M. on Thursday at the funeral home.  Mamie Jane Boykin Williams was born in Wilmington, NC, on October 3, 1929, to the late Burney Everett and Rosa Boykin.  She left this earthly realm peacefully on December 29, 2023, at the age of 94 surrounded by her loved ones.  Mamie was married to Dewitt Williams and together they raised 3 sons, Michael, Jerry, and Clarence.  Mamie attended Williston Industrial High School in Wilmington, N.C. and excelled as an alumnus of Fayetteville State University, where she pledged as a member of the distinguished, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.  Her love for children and education compelled her to teach in the New Hanover County School System for an astonishing 33 years.  She was often approached by former students excited to express the pride, respect, and appreciation that they have had for her even into adulthood.  Her poise and graceful demeanor inspired her students, friends, and family to emulate some of her many demonstrated qualities, such as perseverance and tenacity, maintaining her eloquent nature, even beyond retirement.  The epitome of resilience, and a virtuous woman of God, Mamie was the eldest active member of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church and would also frequently worship GOD within the neighboring church, St. Matthew AME of Wrightsville Sound.   Her active involvement between the two churches birthed some of her most cherished relationships, such as her best friends, Mrs. Geneva Age, Mrs. Joneita Jinwright, Mrs. Joyce Green and husband, William Green, the Barfield family, and many other families of these two profound churches were dear to her heart just as much of her family as her own family.  With GOD and her family as her highest priorities, her perspective on life was caring, compassionate, genuine, optimistic, fair, and honest.  Reflecting an unparallel inner strength, she was a woman of few words, but often expressed her love in ways that comforted her listener in the assurance that support and privacy was safe with her, no matter the relationship.  She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Dewitt Williams, Aunt Mildred Boykin (whom she was raised by), siblings Henry Murphy, James Murphy, Leroy Murphy, Raymond Murphy, Charles Murphy, and her daughter-in-law Brenda Williams.  Mamie Jane Boykin Williams is survived by her sons Michael, Jerry, and Clarence (Jacqueline) Williams, her grandchildren, Michael (Joono), Orlando, Brian, Antwan (Dewitt) Jerry (JW), her one and only granddaughter, that was named after her, Lil Mamie, Tarence, her sister Virginia Murphy Crews, a host of great grands, great-great grands, loving nieces, nephews, other relatives, and dear friends.  She will truly be missed by all who knew and loved her.