Obit: PFC John W. Williams, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291

 



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                            Ruston Daily Leader - Date Unknown 
     
PFC.  JOHN W. WILLIAMS
Area Marine Is Killed
In Viet Action

CHOUDRANT (Special) -Funeral arrangements for Private First Class
John W. Williams, 22, of the United States Marine Corps, who was
killed in the Viet Nam War recently, are incomplete at Spears
Funeral Home in Ruston.

Williams, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Williams, Rt. 2,Choudrant,
died in the vicinity of Chu Lai Republic of Viet Nam on March 1,
1966.

He sustained multiple fragmentation wounds over his entire body
from an unknown explosive device while on patrol, according to a
telegram from Wallace M. Greene Jr., general USMC commandant of the
Marine Corps.

Williams graduated from Downsville High School in 1962 and enlisted
in the Marine Corps in April 1964.  He trained at San  Diego,
Calif., and had been serving in Viet Nam for eight or nine months.

Burial will be in Douglas cemetery near Choudrant.

Other survivors include his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Harrison
Williams, Choudrant; maternal grandfather, John Templeton, Ruston;
three brothers,  James Williams Jr., Terry and Charles Williams,
all of Choudrant; and two sisters, Mrs. John Roberts, Houston,
Tex., and Miss Betty Jean Williams, Choudrant.

Submitters Note: JOHN WILLIAM WILLIAMS (son of James Walcott
Williams and Janie Oren Templeton) was born August 31, 1943 and
died March 1, 1966 in Vietnam. Burial was in Sibley Presbyterian
Cemetery.