John Sye Williams

Williams, John Sye
b. 17 Aug 1926 d. 10 Mar 1988
 
Breckenridge American Newspaper – March, 1988
 
                Services for John S. Williams, a 61-year-old Breckenridge resident, were at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Harry Grantz, pastor of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Amarillo and former pastor of First Baptist Church of Breckenridge officiating. He was assisted by the Rev. E.R. Holder, pastor of Key Baptist Church in Lamesa and former pastor of Shelton Avenue Baptist Church.
                Burial followed in Breckenridge Cemetery directed by Morehart Mortuary.
                He died at 5:45 p.m. Thursday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas as a result of injuries he received in a rangefire in southwest Stephens County Feb. 13. He had been listed in critical condition at Parkland Burn Center since the accident.
                Born Aug. 17, 1926, in San Angelo, he moved with his family to southeastern Oklahoma when he was five.
                After graduating from Achille High School in Achille, Okla., he joined the Navy and served at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, of the southern tip of Japan. As a member of the 7th Fleet he sailed into Japan three days before the United States and Japan signed the peace treaty which ended World War II.
                Following his discharge from the Navy he returned to Oklahoma and enrolled in Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University.) He received his bachelor of science degree in agronomy in 1950.
                He married Marcy Wilson in Fort Worth, Dec. 22, 1951. He worked a year for General Dynamics before joining the Soil Conservation Service Sept. 4, 1951. He was assigned to Big Spring for training and then moved to Breckenridge Feb 1, 1952, with the title of soil conservationist.
                During his service here with the SCS, Williams pioneered range seeding programs. The programs he designed for seed bed preparation and seeding in the mid-1950’s have become accepted by the Soil Conservation Service statewide.
                Williams retired from the Soil Conservation Service Jan. 3, 1984, after more than 33 years of service with the SCS with all but five months of that time in Stephens County.
                A member of the First Baptist Church in Breckenridge, Williams served as Sunday School director and was in charge of the church’s sound equipment. He was the treasurer for the Cisco Baptist Association and Baptist Men’s Director. He served on the executive board of the Big Country as well as serving as a trustee. He had worked as a voluntary consultant with the Mission Service Corps of the Baptist General Convention of Texas for several years. He was chairman of the Red Cross in Stephens County and taught numerous CPR courses in the community. He had also served as a football official for 30 years.
                Survivors include his wife of Breckenridge; two daughters, Suzie (Mrs. Bob) Womble of Morse and Nicki Williams of Austin; two sisters, Vernell Sexton of Colbert, Okla. and Lou Ella Harvey of Muskogee, Okla.; and two grandsons, Robert Carson Womble and Jon Tye Womble, both of Morse.
                He was preceded in death by his parents; one daughter, Janie Williams; and one brother.
                The family requests memorials be made to the Big Country Baptist Assembly at Lueders which may be left at Morehart Mortuary.
                Pallbearers were Quincy Corbett, Tom Cyprian, Jack Redford, Jack Fambro, Tommy Hailey, Allen Heirman, Robert Purdom and Bob Turner.
                Honorary pallbearers were pastors of Cisco Baptist Association and Mission Service Corp. personnel.

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