{"id":12222,"date":"2025-03-07T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:12:19","slug":"margaret-williams-mbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/03\/margaret-williams-mbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Williams MBE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margaret Williams MBE<\/h3>\n

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Margaret Williams MBE
Sunrise: 21st July 1931; Sunset: 5th March 2025
‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant’.
May she rest in peace
Photo: Janet French – used with permission<\/p>\n

It is with great sadness that we pass on the news that Margaret died peacefully at home at 12.10am on Wednesday 5th March.<\/p>\n

This news marks the end of a wonderful servant hearted, Christ centred life. Margaret was a central part of our Christ Church community for 70 years since her move from Swansea.<\/p>\n

We celebrated Margaret\u2019s remarkable 50 years as a Lay minister on St Luke\u2019s day 20th October last year. Margaret was the most amazing, joyful, spirit-filled passionate ambassador for Christ as a Teacher, Headteacher, Gospel Minister, Preacher and worship leader. Above all Margaret was a faithful friend, generous host and ecumenical bridge builder which has been evident over the 56 years of our Old Town Partnership of Churches.<\/p>\n

We remember Margaret\u2019s husband Danny, Val her sister and her nieces Pam and Jean.<\/p>\n

We are very grateful to Ailsa, Janet, Margaret\u2019s friends and professional carers for the love and support which enabled her to remain at home in her final weeks.<\/p>\n

Please pass on your own personal special memories to me personally or the Parish Office of how God touched your lives through Margaret\u2019s life and Christian ministry.<\/p>\n

Please pray for the preparation of Margaret\u2019s Christian funeral at Christ Church. Further details to follow.<\/p>\n

As Margaret rests in peace may she rise in glory.<\/p>\n

God bless you Margaret and thank you our beloved friend for all the countless
ways you have blessed us here in Swindon.<\/p>\n

Every blessing Simon<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12224,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}