WILLIAMS, LEONA
(*1943)
WILLIAMS, LEONA (b. L. Helton, Vienna, Mo., 1943) Leona Williams is a country SINGER/SONGWRITER who was married to MERLE HAGGARD in the late 1970s and early 1980s, performing as his duet partner through that period. Williams came from a musical family, and performed with her four brothers, seven sisters, and parents as The Helton Family from an early age. At age fifteen she got her own radio show, Leona Sings , that was broadcast out of Jefferson City, Missouri, and soon after wed drummer Ron…