Susan D. Williams

    
Susan Doreen Williams, affectionately called “Susie” by many was born on May 16, 1955 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City to the late Marjorie Marie Wilson and the late Leroy Wilson Sr. She was big sister to her two brothers, Leroy, Jr. and Stanley (deceased). Susie graduated from William H, Taft High School in the Bronx, New York and later took Paralegal classes. At the age of 18, she was diagnosed with Lupus and then confined to a wheelchair.  The doctor gave her six months to live and as we all can see, Susie defied all odds and proved that in 1970 when she gave birth to her son Darrell and raised him as a single mom. 
For all those that truly knew Susie, knew that her disability did not define her nor did it stop her from doing all the things that she loved and enjoyed.  Aside from Susie’s caring and loving nature, she was a known shop-a-holic (a trait she admittedly said that she inherited from her mother), an excellent cook, remembered everyone’s birthday, a lover of Jazz, loved Barry White, loved Thrift Shops (called herself “Thrifty Susie”), loved going to Walmart Department Store in New Jersey, loved Katz‘s Deli, loved Junior’s Cheesecake, loved talking to her friends on the phone late at night and religiously watched wrestling on Mondays and Fridays at 8:00pm (where you had dare not disturb her during that time).  
She will be deeply missed and leaves to cherish her memory:  son, Darrell C. Wilson; brother, Leroy Wilson, Jr.; daughter-in-law, LaVon Wilson; grandchildren, Armani Woody, Darrell Wilson, Jr.; Darrien Wilson, and DaVonna Wilson; a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.  She is preceded in death by her ex-husband John Sturkey.
 

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