Nancy Williams Gram, widow of six-term Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams and of H. James Gram, will be laid to rest at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 23, 2006, at the Mackinac Island Protestant Cemetery. The graveside service will be conducted by Episcopal Bishop James Kelsey of Marquette and will end with the playing of taps by a Mackinac State Historic Park bugler.

Mrs. Williams Gram, who was Michigan's First Lady from 1949 until 1961, died Monday, June 19, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia. She was 91 years old.

Mrs. Williams Gram will be buried next to her husband, Governor G. Mennen Williams, who was the first Michigan governor to be buried on Mackinac Island. He also served as a Michigan Supreme Court Justice, including four years as Chief Justice, before he died in February 1988.

Following his death, Mrs. Williams married H. James Gram of Grosse Pointe Farms, who died in 2004.

Friends of the Williams family who will be in attendance for Saturday's service include former Michigan Attorney General Frank

Kelley of Okemos, former Deputy State Treasurer Thomas J. Cleary of East Lansing, attorney Michael Staebler of Detroit, whose father, Neil, was the chief political strategist for Governor Williams, and Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace, son of former U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown Sr., who served as the first chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority. Editor's Note: Information was provided by Tom Farrell, who covered Lansing for United Press International during the time Soapy Williams served as governor and Supreme Court justice.