Teresa Marie Williams
Born: July 29, 1931
Died: July 31, 2010
Teresa Stacy Williams, MD, 79 years of age, died July 31, 2010 after a short illness. Terry, as she was known to her friends, was born in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, a small coal mining town in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Her grandparents were immigrants who came to the United States through Ellis Island seeking a better life, paying for their transportation and this new life by working in the hard coal mines of McAdoo. Terry’s father followed his father into the mines, and counseled Terry that a better existence awaited her, urging her to go forth and seek her dreams.
As a young girl Terry knew she wanted to be a physician, and focused on that goal throughout her early years. After high school she successfully completed work and study at St. Agnes Hospital in Philadelphia, earning the status of Registered Nurse. In 1953 Terry enlisted as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force during which stint she served as a Flight Nurse, caring for wounded soldiers as they were flown stateside from the Korean War zone. At the conclusion of her enlistment she married a fighter pilot, Kenneth Stacy, and together at Tinker Field they terminated their Air Force Service and she became a valued nurse at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Kenneth was killed in an automobile accident in 1967.
While performing her nursing duties at the Health Sciences Center, in order to satisfy the requirements for acceptance into medical school, at night Terry attended Oklahoma City University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1961 Terry was accepted as a student in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine from which in 1965 she was graduated with honors. She then pursued a medical residency in radiology, practiced medicine at Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City and became qualified as a pediatric radiologist.
Terry was an outstanding lecturer at the OU College of Medicine, was awarded the prestigious Regents Award for Superior Teaching, and upon retirement in 1992 the OU Board of Regents named her Professor Emeritus of Radiological Services.
As an advocate for abused children and with her expertise in the use of radiography in assessing the nature and timing of childhood skeletal injuries, Terry was highly respected and in demand as teacher, public speaker and expert witness in criminal trials.
In 1973 Terry married Thomas R. Williams of Guthrie, and in the marriage acquired not only a husband, but also three children, Sara Williams Hurst, Thomas R. Williams II and Peter L. Williams. Later she became the doting grandmother of Zachary Hurst, Matthew Hurst, Caden Williams and Kennedy Williams. Among other of Terry’s surviving relatives is her childhood buddy and loving brother, Michael Shogi of Philadelphia.
A memorial service will be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Guthrie at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 10th day of August, 2010. Arrangements are under the direction of Smith-Gallo Funeral Home, Guthrie.
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