Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....WILLIAMSON , MAJOR FELIX D. 1947 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR wyliesheppard@yaho.com May 9, 2011, 1:18 pm CORDELE DISPATCH LAST RITES FOR MAJ. WILLIAMSON FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MAJOR FELIX D WILLIAMSON ,25,CORDELE ARMY CORP HERO WHO DIED LAST FRIDAY IN A PLANE CRASH AT MARCH FIELD CALIFORNIA WHILE ON A ROUTINE TRAINING MISSION WERE HELD FROM THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FOUR OCLOCK. THE BODY ACCOMPANIED BY MILITARY ESCORT REACHED CORDELE SATURDAY. THE RITES WERE CONDUCTED BY REV. CLIFTON E. FITE PASTOR AND REV. A.B.HOSEA. A PROFUSION OF BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS SURROUNDED THE FLAG CRAPED CASKET AND BANKED THE CHURCH ALTER. A CONCOURSE OF SORROWING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES THAT FILLED TO CAPACITY THE MAIN AUDITORIUM WERE PRESENT TO PAY A LAST TRIBUTE OF LOVE AND ESTEEM. THE ELLIS QUARTETTE SANG TWO SELECTIONS BEAUTIFUL ISLE OUT SOMEWHERE AND ROCK OF AGES. THE PALLBEARERS WERE CHARLIE GARWOOD JR., CARSWELL PRIDGEN, CHARLES CRUM, BOBBIE CHESHIRE, BO SHEPPARD, AND HERBERT STANTON. COMPOSING AN HONARY ESCORT WERE; C.C.GREER , J.E TEATE, SAM COX, L.E. WILLIAMS, ROY BEACH, J.A. WALLS, JOHN DOROUGH, H.G. WILEY, LOREN WILEY, TOGETHER WITH A GROUP OF THE LOCAL NATIONAL GUARD UNIT AND THE AMERICAN LEGION. FOLLOWING THE SERVICES AT THE CHURCHTHE FUNERAL CORTEGE LEFT FOR PENIA WHERE THE MILITARY COMMITAL SERVICE TOOK PLACE AT THE GRAVESIDE. THE FOLLOWING FROM FT. BENNING COMPOSED THE FIRING SQUAD LT. J.K. FELTY, T SGT. MINTON,SGT. DICK, SGT. COFFMAN, SGT ERVASTI, SGT ANDERSON, PFC BURGE, PFC PARKER, AND BUGLER PFC LATHROP. COL WM. JACKSON WHO ACCOMPANIED THE BODY FROM MARCH FIELD TO CORDELE PRESENTED THE FLAG WHICH COVERED THE CASKET TO MAJOR WILLIAMSON'S MOTHER MRS. IDA B. WILLIAMSON. MAJOR WILLIAMSON ENTERED SERVICE AS AN ENLISTED MEMBER OF THE THIRTEENETH GUARD DIVISION WHEN THAT UNIT WAS MOBILIZED SEPT.16,1940. HE WENT TO FORT JACKSON ,SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE HE TRANSFERRED TO THE AIR CORPS LATER RISING TO THE RANK OF MAJOR. HE SERVED IN THE EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS FOR THREE YEARS OPERATING FROM A CENTRAL BASE OUT OF ENGLAND. ARMY OFFICIALS AT MARCH FIELD HAD CITED HIS OVERSEAS RECORD AS ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING OF THE ENTIRE WAR. REARED HERE , WILLIAMSON WAS OUTSTANDING IN HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND 4-H CLUB WORK. HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST 4-H CLUB BOYS FROM GEORGIA TO WIN A TRIP TO CHICAGO. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH . HIS SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS MOTHER MRS. IDA F.BRYAN WILLIAMSON THREE BROTHERS W.W. WILLIAMSON MIAMI,ROBERT D. WILLIAMSON GERMANY; AND HARRELL WILLIAMSON CORDELE; TWO SISTERS MRS.C. ALTON OWENS ROCHELLE;AND MRS. J. HATRLL HARRIS OF PITTS.ANOTHER BROTHER RUDOLPH LOST HIS LIFE IN COMBAT IN GERMANY. Additional Comments: MAJOR WILLIAMSON IS LISTED AS AN ACE PILOT FOR WW11. HE SHOT DOWN 5 ENEMY PLANES IN ONE DAY.HE IS A HERO AND CORDELE SHOULD BE PROUD OF HIM AND ALL OUR WW11 VETS. MY UNCLE BO SHEPPARD WAS A PALLBEARER. HE RETIRED A MAJOR FROM US AIR FORCE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/w/williams13298ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb