Celebrating The Life of Lovay Williams

Main message: This was a funeral service that used scripture and testimony to celebrate the life and legacy of Levy N. Williams (27), to comfort the grieving, to call for justice for her death, and to urge the community to protect and support Black women and Levy’s daughter Delani.

Key points:

• Speakers celebrated Levy’s life, character, dreams (including schooling and desire to be a mortician), and her role as a devoted mother to seven-year-old Delani.
• Scripture readings and prayers emphasized hope in the resurrection, God’s comfort in sorrow, and the promise of eternal life.
• Multiple elected officials and community leaders mourned the loss, condemned the violence, and called for accountability and justice at the upcoming court proceedings.
• Repeated appeals for the community to support the family long-term—especially Delani—and not to abandon them once media attention fades.
• Personal family tributes recalled Levy’s warmth, humor, cooking, dancing, and the ways she impacted loved ones.

Scriptures mentioned: John 11:25 (I am the resurrection and the life), Job 19:25-26 (For I know that my redeemer liveth), Job 1:21 (The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away), Psalm 23, Ecclesiastes 3:1 (To everything there is a season), Psalm 90:12 (Lord teach us to number our days), John 14:1,6 (Let not your heart be troubled; I am the way, the truth, and the life), Revelation 21 (new heaven and new earth), Revelation 1:8 / 22:13 (I am Alpha and Omega), Psalm 27:14 (Wait on the Lord).