Clara Belle Drisdale was born in
Plum, Texas in October 1885. She attended Prairie View Normal and
Independent College (now Prairie View A & M University) in Prairie
View, Texas beginning in 1903, and was valedictorian of her 1908
graduating class. She married Jasper Williams in 1917, and had three
sons: Jasper, James, and Charles. Mr. Williams died in 1946.
Williams took courses at the University of Chicago, and then enrolled at the New Mexico College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts in the fall of 1928.
Taking courses only offered during the summer, while she worked as a teacher at Booker T. Washington School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English from NMCA&MA in 1937 at the age of 51.
