Tom Lyle Williams was Unk Ile to the family and never failed to remember every single one of his siblings, their children and their children's children on Christmas. My sisters, brother and I, couldn't wait for our shiny $10.00 bill inside a money-card, that said Merry Christmas, Lots of love from Unk Ile.
Some of my favorite pictures
Sharrie and Donna Williams, 1949
Sharrie and Donna, 1952,
Tom Lyle Williams with Billee, Christmas, 1959
Donna, Sharrie and Billee Williams, 1959.
Bill Williams with his uncle, Tom Lyle Williams, 1959.
Tom Lyle and Bill Williams, with Billee in the background, 1959
Tom Lyle with googley eye glasses, 1959.
my baby brother Preston 1960
Read about the founding of the Maybelline Company in 1915 to it's sale in 1967 in my book The Maybelline Story. You will meet it's founder and owner, Tom Lyle Williams, and his family. I think you will enjoy reading about the family behind the name that became an American Institution.
Vintage Merry Christmas 1943 during WW11
Christmas poker game with Noel J, Dick, Neppy, Frances and antie Ida,
(Frances sister.) Chicago
Noel J, with two of his four children, 23 year old, Neppy and 11 year old Dick Williams.
Christmas 1965, Evelyn Williams, Nana, my dad, Bill, me, and Unk Ile,
Unk Ile and Nana, 1966.
Sharrie, Bill, Unk Ile, Billee, my mother, Pauline, Donna, Nana, Christmas, 1967.
Bill, Vince Aiken, Charlie Lewis as Santa, my mother, Pauline and Billee, 1967.
Debby Angel, Preston as Santa, and Billee, 1968.
Nana at my dad's home in Palm Springs, California, 1973.
My Baby Georgia, with Santa, 1978.
Christmas Past with some of my Maybelline Family Cousins
Noel A. Williams Christmas, 1967.
Chuck Williams BB1, 1967
Some of my Maybelline cousins. Top row, Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, Christine Williams-Huber, Nancy Williams, Chuck Williams, James Williams-Huber, Julee Williams-Huber, Jimmy Williams. Christmas, Montecito, California, 1970.
Nancy and Chuck Williams with cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, 1970.
It's been 50 years ago this December since the Maybelline Co. sold to Plough Inc. It changed all of our lives in ways that we never expected. We were all kids and had the fun of going through the amazing experience together. You can read more about it in my memoir, The Maybelline Story and in my new book coming out next year. Stay tuned for more on that in 2018.
