Marjorie I. (Melton) Williams '42 was a homemaker and legislator's wife who, during her years on the University of Wichita's campus, was an assistant to Hugo Wall and a student-athlete who lettered in field hockey, becoming one of the university's first letterwomen.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in education, she married the late Vernon Williams ’42, who later served as a Kansas representative.
The couple raised three sons. She and her husband were staunch Shocker basketball and baseball fans and active members of the WSU Alumni Association.
Marjorie Williams died March 31 in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
