Marilyn "Mimi" Louise Williams

Marilyn Coon Williams (Mimi) was born February 28, 1936 in Youngstown Ohio. She was born to parents Andrew James Vrabel and Mary Wopershall Vrabel. She spent her youth in Youngstown Ohio, winning many medals and awards for being a majorette, competing on the junior gymnastics team, and for baton twirling with fire. She lived at home with her parents, her brother Robert Vrabel and sister Patricia Nespeca until she met and fell in love with Gerald Coon, they were married in 1956. He was in the Air Force and it wasn’t long after their marriage that she would leave behind everything she ever knew to start the next chapter of her life in Morocco, their first duty station as husband and wife. Over the next 21 years she was a dutiful military spouse, when her husband was answering the calls to serve the nation she was serving at home. Home was wherever the Air Force sent them and with each new duty station in a new state or even a new country she went about the task of making each house a home. A home where dinner was homemade and served nightly with the entire family gathering around the table. A home in which she spent time raising and nurturing her for children, pouring into them daily and often fulfilling both mom and dad roles when duty had called her husband away. During this time, she also served as a red cross volunteer. She was a strong-minded woman who never took life too serious. She was not bothered by much and with the simple shrug of her shoulders she let the world's opinions bounce off of her. She lived life on her own terms, and she was sassy and bold, but she loved hard. She opened her home and heart to her children’s friends and fostered relationships with them that lasted up until her passing. She went by many nicknames bla bla, Mimi, mom, a lot of people in the family called her goofy grandma a nickname that fit her well. She never hesitated to be silly, doing little dances, kicking her legs like a rockette and giving a little shimmy. She loved to laugh and enjoyed having a good time surrounded by family. However, if a slot machine was involved everything else ceased to exist. She loved to gamble and play the odds she finally cashed in winning the ultimate jackpot, a trip to Heaven on December 24, 2020. She leaves behind 4 children Andrew Coon (Marsha) Bernadette Jones (Casper) Thomas Coon (Susan) and Teri Ruby (Greg) a sister Patricia Nespeca (Rick) and a brother Robert Vrabel as well as a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, 10 grandkids, and 18 great grandkids. In heaven she was met by her heavenly father, her dad Andrew Vrabel, her mom Mary Vrabel, and her first husband Gerald Coon. For those left behind we have so many life lessons she gave us. She reminds us to not take life too seriously and that all things will pass in time, to love and love more and when you just can’t find the right words a finger will always get your point across.