Audrey Mae Sheppard (February 28, 1923 – November 4, 1975), better known as Audrey Williams, was an American musician and the first wife of country music icon Hank Williams, Sr., mother of Hank Williams, Jr. and grandmother of Hank Williams III and Holly Williams.Audrey and Hank were married from December 15, 1944, until July 10, 1952, when their divorce was finalized. 　　Sheppard was born in Banks, Alabama. She met Hank Williams in 1943. At the age of 20, she was separated from her first husband and a single mother to their daughter, Lycretia. In a ceremony performed just ten days after her divorce became final (and before the expiration of the 60-day waiting period then required after a divorce), she and Hank were married before a Justice of the Peace at a gas station in Andalusia, Alabama, in December 1944.