Betty Williams was born on army base Elgin Field in Florida, her father fought in World

War II but they moved to east Texas in Athens where her father was from. Betty graduated

from Athens High School and went to Henderson County Junior College until she was

transferred to East Texas State University where she received a Master’s degree in School

Administration. Over the course of her life she became a school teacher in Dallas, Texas and this

lead her to Texarkana where she taught as a school teacher for 15 years. Eventually she joined

the Texarkana City council because former council woman Tina Bill health grew worse.

Williams was voted in on December 16th and was sworn in the next month January 17th.

Council Betty Williams believes that the downtown area of Texarkana, Texas is

becoming more successful over the years. With that being said, she does believe we need more

residential areas and that town down needs even more industry. S he also wants the Wards

such as her Ward, Ward 3 to be clean, have the property mowed and littering stopped. Mrs.

Williams offers residents to come to the City Council and offer ideas to make Texarkana a

better city. Another great aspect about Mrs. Williams is that if she was given a grant of one

million dollars to be used for the city she would fix neighborhood streets and drainage. Many

areas in Texarkana has cracked roads and some areas have light flooding so repairing the roads

and drainage pipes would be very beneficial to the residents of Texarkana.

Williams believes in protecting our students and teachers, she says we

should spread them out in the classrooms and wearing masks. She even goes as far as to say

working online and perhaps not even attending school but instead using long distance learning.

As for the elderly in nursing homes she believes in zero contact, the best option would be

online such as phone calls or zoom sense in her words “they are the most vulnerable.” It’s quite

apparent that she wants to keep Texarkana-ians safe whether old or young when it comes to

Covid-19. She wants Texarkana to grow and any unkempt areas to be repaired and cleaned.

She is an over-all hard worker from teaching our young and the next generation of Americans,

to thinking of the people and our needs.