[3] In summer 1923, Bill Tormé met Betty Sopkin at a wedding reception in the Morrison Hotel and they subsequently married in January 1924, with their first child, son Melvin, arriving in September 1925.
In his autobiography, It Wasn't All Velvet, Melvin, who gained stardom as the recording artist, songwriter and personality, Mel Tormé, recounts that the family surname had originally been "Torma", but an Ellis Island immigration official inscribed it as "Torme".
He describes young Myrna as an especially pretty baby that, at the age of ten months, developed meningitis and required the removal of a mastoid, which left her with lifelong astigmatism.
Williams, born in 1925, played the drums and served as a session musician for a number of top acts, including Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. during the Rat Pack's performances in Las Vegas.
In her twelve years on the commission, she served on the following committees and boards:[4] Two days before the 2006 general election, her opponent and ultimate winner, Chris Giunchigliani, presented political ads which suggested that Myrna Williams was somehow implicated in the corruption probe which became publicly known as Operation G-Sting[5] because she was the only commissioner running for re-election, who served alongside Erin Kenny, Dario Herrera, Mary Kincaid-Chauncey and Lance Malone, the commissioners who were charged and convicted in the case.