Miss Willa Williams-Sims was born on June 9th, 1944 in Lynch Kentucky. She was the daughter of the late Monteen Noble and J.R. Myrick. Willa was a devout Christian, having grown up in Goode Temple AME Zion Church in Lynch and later havingthat you knowthat attended Shady Grove Church in Tuskegee Alabama. After her sophomore year in high school, Willa left Kentucky and moved to Detroit, Michigan where she finished high school and thereafter enrolled by transfer in Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky. Miss Williams was very interested in the Civil Rights Movement and participated and sit-ins and demonstrations led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Selma Alabama for a time. Eventually, she transferred from Kentucky State to Wayne State University in Detroit and graduated with a degree in English, which was followed a long and noteworthy career as a teacher in the Detroit public school system. Soon after beginning her teaching career, she met the love of her life, Mr. Frank Sims, to whom she remained married until his death. It was around 1994 that she settled in Tuskegee and engaged in a life of service to her fellow man and woman for the rest of her life. Willa utilized her tremendous skills of providing hospitality, compassion, and companionship to others wherever and whenever she could. She was especially fond of cooking and serving great meals to those in need. She was preceded in death by her mother, Monteen, and her father, Willie J. Noble, and leaves behind her sister's Myra, Mary, and Kathleen and Brothers Michael, John, and Kerry Noble as well as a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins. Willa Williams-Sims will be deeply and forever missed and we are grateful for the legacy of love and accomplishment that mark her life.