OBIT: James WILLIAMS, SSG, 1944, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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JAMES WILLIAMS

Rites for Ohiopyle Soldier, Former Resident of Confluence, Held Tuesday

  CONFLUENCE, Oct. 11 - Funeral services for Staff Sergeant James Williams, 19-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Williams, Sr., Ohiopyle, former residents of 
Confluence, were conducted Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Jacob Kooser, pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of that Community.  Burial was held in the Jersey 
Cemetery.
  Sgt. Williams died of wounds suffered in France in July.  He had received 
hospitalization in a base hospital in England.  On his return trip home the well 
known Ohiopyle youth died.
  His body was shipped to Ohiopyle from Charleston, South Carolina, with a 
military escort.
  He attended the Ohiopyle High School but entered the service prior to his 
graduation.  He received his basic training at Camp Blanding, Florida, and Camp 
Atterbury, Indiana.
  The Connellsville American Legion held a ritual at the grave.
  Pallbearers were John Jackson, Herbert and Ray Kurtz, Sturgis Wallace, Harry 
Johnson and Webster Holt.
  He is survived by his parents, five sisters, Betty, Doris, Garland and Arlene; 
four brothers, Clyde, William, Lewis and George, and his great-grandmother, Mrs. 
Sarah Miller, of Lake Lynn.

Meyersdale Republican, October 12, 1944