Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....WILLIAMSON , MAJOR  FELIX  D. 1947
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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.

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