Las Cruces Daily Digest Saturday, September 26, 2026
Ty's Take
Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week at 87, and if you've lived in Las Cruces long enough you've crossed paths with a man who showed up, did the work, and didn't make a production of it. That's the kind of person a town like ours runs on, the kind we don't always notice until the obituary reminds us they're gone. Williams was woven into the fabric of this place for decades, and there's no real way to measure what that means until you're sitting with the fact that he isn't here anymore. The Mesilla Valley loses another one of the people who helped build it into something worth staying for.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Thomas Ocie Williams, 78, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, passed away on June 22, 2026, after a career as a playwright and actor with Agatha's A Taste of Mystery in Atlanta from 1988 to 2005. His wife, Barbara Louis Williams, will host a Celebration of Life for Tom on October 18 at 3 p.m. at the Sunset...
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