Paula Jean Mash Williams, 45, of Cow Palace Road, died Saturday, September 24 at Davis Regional Medical Center in Statesville after an extended illness. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday, September 28 at the Piedmont Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Darrell Cox officiating. Entombment will follow at Forest Hill Memorial Park Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 PM Tuesday at Piedmont Funeral Home. Mrs. Williams was born January 28, 1966 in Guilford County to Paul Mash and Daisy Mae Smith Strickland. She was a former employee of Lexington Furniture Industries. Her husband, Nathan Williams, preceded her in death as well as her father, and her step-father, Temple Strickland. She is survived by her daughter, Brittany Williams of Lexington; her mother of Lexington; her sisters, Patsy Ann Harrington and husband, Randy Lee Harrington of Elkton, MD and Barbara Ruth Eller and husband, Harold Wayne Eller, Jr. of Aberdeen, MD; her brother, Paul Mash, Jr. and wife, Susan, of Lexington; her step brothers, Jimmy Strickland and Dwayne Strickland, both of Lexington; her in-law family and nine nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to Trinity Baptist Church, 1365 Old Mountain Road, Statesville NC 28677 or to Second United Church of Christ, 330 N. Church Street, Lexington NC 27292