The Town of White Lake remembered volunteer firefighter Mildred Gray Williams on Wednesday.
Williams fell to her death Tuesday while doing construction on the Bladen County Water Rescue building.
“Everybody knows her by Gray,” Tammy Black, who was good friends with Williams, said.
When Tammy Black says everybody, she’s not kidding.
“Once you meet Gray, she doesn’t meet a stranger,” Black said. Williams works for a construction company, but was known as a volunteer with the White Lake Fire Department and Bladen County Water Rescue.
The Bladen County Sheriff’s Office says Williams was replacing metal roofing on the Bladen County Water Rescue building when she fell around 15 feet to her death.
“It is a blow to our community,” Mayor Goldston Womble said.
Womble says the town is very tight knit. He says a loss like Williams hits hard.