December 21, 1948
Last Rites for war hero are held Tuesday
Memorial rites for Duane H. Williams, who lost his life in the Pacific theatre during the last weeks of the war, were conducted Tuesday afternoon from White Christian Church by Harvey Hardin, pastor of the Chelsea Christian Church.
Casket –bearers were Williams' boyhood friends, Emmett Jarvis, Elmer Arning, John Allison, Walter Smith of Chelsea; Lucas Leffler of Nowata and Olen Jordan, Tulsa.
Commitment rites were directed by the Milam-Stanley American Legion Post at Chelsea cemetery where interment was made under direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home.
During the funeral hour, Chelsea business houses were closed in tribute to the fallen hero.
Williams' body was returned to Chelsea Monday, returned to the United States aboard the U.S.A. Transport Dalton Victory.
Williams was serving in the Navy, as an aerial ordnance man second class with the air force. He lost his life while on a flight in the area of Iwo Jima, when the plane and its entire crew went down June 2, 1945. His body was recovered more than a year later, and interred in a cemetery at Yokohama Japan.
A native of this vicinity, Williams attended school at Alluwe, graduating from high school there in 1942. The next year he entered the Navy.
Surviving is the widow, Maxine Mills Williams; a daughter Karen Sue Williams; his parents Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Williams and two brothers, Hulett of Delaware and Harold Williams
United States Naval Reserve Aviation Ordnance man Second Class, Duane H. Williams died at sea in the Nanpo Shoto area of the South Pacific. He was born December 7, 1924 in Alluwe, Oklahoma. Duane entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in Jun 1943.
Last Rites for war hero are held Tuesday
Memorial rites for Duane H. Williams, who lost his life in the Pacific theatre during the last weeks of the war, were conducted Tuesday afternoon from White Christian Church by Harvey Hardin, pastor of the Chelsea Christian Church.
Casket –bearers were Williams' boyhood friends, Emmett Jarvis, Elmer Arning, John Allison, Walter Smith of Chelsea; Lucas Leffler of Nowata and Olen Jordan, Tulsa.
Commitment rites were directed by the Milam-Stanley American Legion Post at Chelsea cemetery where interment was made under direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home.
During the funeral hour, Chelsea business houses were closed in tribute to the fallen hero.
Williams' body was returned to Chelsea Monday, returned to the United States aboard the U.S.A. Transport Dalton Victory.
Williams was serving in the Navy, as an aerial ordnance man second class with the air force. He lost his life while on a flight in the area of Iwo Jima, when the plane and its entire crew went down June 2, 1945. His body was recovered more than a year later, and interred in a cemetery at Yokohama Japan.
A native of this vicinity, Williams attended school at Alluwe, graduating from high school there in 1942. The next year he entered the Navy.
Surviving is the widow, Maxine Mills Williams; a daughter Karen Sue Williams; his parents Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Williams and two brothers, Hulett of Delaware and Harold Williams
United States Naval Reserve Aviation Ordnance man Second Class, Duane H. Williams died at sea in the Nanpo Shoto area of the South Pacific. He was born December 7, 1924 in Alluwe, Oklahoma. Duane entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in Jun 1943.
December 21, 1948
Last Rites for war hero are held Tuesday
Memorial rites for Duane H. Williams, who lost his life in the Pacific theatre during the last weeks of the war, were conducted Tuesday afternoon from White Christian Church by Harvey Hardin, pastor of the Chelsea Christian Church.
Casket –bearers were Williams' boyhood friends, Emmett Jarvis, Elmer Arning, John Allison, Walter Smith of Chelsea; Lucas Leffler of Nowata and Olen Jordan, Tulsa.
Commitment rites were directed by the Milam-Stanley American Legion Post at Chelsea cemetery where interment was made under direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home.
During the funeral hour, Chelsea business houses were closed in tribute to the fallen hero.
Williams' body was returned to Chelsea Monday, returned to the United States aboard the U.S.A. Transport Dalton Victory.
Williams was serving in the Navy, as an aerial ordnance man second class with the air force. He lost his life while on a flight in the area of Iwo Jima, when the plane and its entire crew went down June 2, 1945. His body was recovered more than a year later, and interred in a cemetery at Yokohama Japan.
A native of this vicinity, Williams attended school at Alluwe, graduating from high school there in 1942. The next year he entered the Navy.
Surviving is the widow, Maxine Mills Williams; a daughter Karen Sue Williams; his parents Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Williams and two brothers, Hulett of Delaware and Harold Williams
United States Naval Reserve Aviation Ordnance man Second Class, Duane H. Williams died at sea in the Nanpo Shoto area of the South Pacific. He was born December 7, 1924 in Alluwe, Oklahoma. Duane entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in Jun 1943.
Last Rites for war hero are held Tuesday
Memorial rites for Duane H. Williams, who lost his life in the Pacific theatre during the last weeks of the war, were conducted Tuesday afternoon from White Christian Church by Harvey Hardin, pastor of the Chelsea Christian Church.
Casket –bearers were Williams' boyhood friends, Emmett Jarvis, Elmer Arning, John Allison, Walter Smith of Chelsea; Lucas Leffler of Nowata and Olen Jordan, Tulsa.
Commitment rites were directed by the Milam-Stanley American Legion Post at Chelsea cemetery where interment was made under direction of the Benjamin Funeral Home.
During the funeral hour, Chelsea business houses were closed in tribute to the fallen hero.
Williams' body was returned to Chelsea Monday, returned to the United States aboard the U.S.A. Transport Dalton Victory.
Williams was serving in the Navy, as an aerial ordnance man second class with the air force. He lost his life while on a flight in the area of Iwo Jima, when the plane and its entire crew went down June 2, 1945. His body was recovered more than a year later, and interred in a cemetery at Yokohama Japan.
A native of this vicinity, Williams attended school at Alluwe, graduating from high school there in 1942. The next year he entered the Navy.
Surviving is the widow, Maxine Mills Williams; a daughter Karen Sue Williams; his parents Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Williams and two brothers, Hulett of Delaware and Harold Williams
United States Naval Reserve Aviation Ordnance man Second Class, Duane H. Williams died at sea in the Nanpo Shoto area of the South Pacific. He was born December 7, 1924 in Alluwe, Oklahoma. Duane entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in Jun 1943.
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