WILLIAMS, Yvonne

Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, AZ >>> Published on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 <<< Yvonne Poolet Williams, 92, of Lake Havasu City, passed away May 6, 2017. She was born on July 26, 1924 in Winooski, Vermont, the youngest daughter of 11 children, to parents Wilfred and Claudia Poolet. As a child, she moved to Witherbee, New York and attended high school in Mineville, N.Y. Yvonne lived on Long Island during World War II where she worked in an airplane fastener factory. She also was employed as a waitress at the family restaurant in Schroon Lake, N.Y. Later in life, Yvonne worked and taught craft classes at American Handicrafts in Phoenix. After retirement, she became a homemaker in Lake Havasu City. Yvonne lived most of her life in New York, but along with living in Witherbee and Schroon Lake, she also resided in Schenectady, N.Y. , Moriah, N.Y., Phoenix, Las Vegas, Nevada and finally made a permanent home in Havasu. Yvonne had many interests. Her favorites were shopping and couponing, making macramé plant hangers and braiding rugs. She was an excellent seamstress, loved to crochet, redecorated several homes and was a voracious reader (especially of crime novels). Yvonne was preceded in death by her parents, Wilfred and Claudia Poolet; siblings Aline Greenough, James Poolet, Jane Flint, Paul Poulet, Roger Poolet, Alex Poolet, Patrick Poolet, Lorraine Collette and Alfred Poulette. She is survived by her husband, Edmund Williams; daughter Michelle Poolet of Golden, Colorado and sister Lillian Noxon, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Services were placed in the care of Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home. Thoughts and condolences can be sent to the family at www.lietz- frazefuneralhome.com. To send a free card, go to www.sendoutcards.com/lietzfraze.