Mary Williams Herrick, 88 of Yarmouth Port, died Friday, April 1 in Kingston.  She was born July 7, 1922 in New Haven Conn., the daughter of the late Warren and Mary Bannister Williams.

Mrs. Herrick was married to the late Harold E. Herrick, Jr. on Sept. 23, 1944.  They lived in Cedarhurst, NY for 30 years before moving to Cape Vincent NY

Mrs. Herrick served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  She served several terms on the Vestry of St. John’s Episcopal  Church in Cape Vincent, was on the boards of the Minna Anthony Common Nature Center on Wellesley Island and the Jefferson County Historical Society in Watertown, NY  She also served as a volunteer executive director of the Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce for seven years.  For over 25 years, from its inception, she assisted her husband with the running of the Decoy and Wildlife Art Show each July in Clayton, NY  In the fall of 1998, Mrs. Herrick moved to Heatherwood, a retirement community in Yarmouth Port.

Mrs. Herrick was the sister of the late Nancy B. Williams Dennison and Navy Lieutenant Warren Williams, Jr. who was lost at sea in 1943.  She leaves her daughter, Laurie Gilmour Shevalier and her husband Dix of Glen, NH and Nantucket; a son, Harold E. Herrick III and his wife, Linda Gifford Herrick, longtime residents of Nantucket, now of Duxbury; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  A memorial service will be held at a later date.