Age 80, Lawton - Funeral services will be 12:30 p.m. Friday in the Becker Memorial Chapel. Colonel Williams died Tuesday at his residence. Burial with full military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born August 28, 1929 in Caddo, Oklahoma, to Roy Elbert and Eva Junia (Suttles) Williams. He moved to Medicine Park as a child and later to Sterling where he was a 1947 graduate of Sterling High School. He entered the U.S. Army and did his basic training at Fort Gordon, Georgia and Officer Candidate School at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1952 and Married Ruby O. Johnson on July 5, 1952 at Sterling. Following a honeymoon to Santa Fe, New Mexico, he was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. He served a tour of duty in Korea and return to Fort Bliss and would later serve at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Great Lakes Naval Base; Worms, Germany; Fort Hood, Texas; Verona, Italy; Fort Sam Houston, Texas with an assignment to the 4th Army Headquarters; Fort Campbell, Kentucky to train 101st Airborne; a tour of Duty in Vietnam and finally to Fort Sill where he retired on June 30, 1970. His awards include the Korean Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, National Defense Service Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, United Nations Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Parachutist Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Four Overseas Service Bars, Army Commendation Ribbon, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Legion of Merit. Following his retirement from the Army he worked for a short time at Comanche County Memorial Hospital and several years for Long Bell Paper Company. He enjoyed farming and ranching near Sterling on the family farm. He is survived by his wife, of the home; three sons and daughters in law, Kenneth Dale and Gloria Williams, Oklahoma City, James Alan and Debbie Williams, Millsville, Georgia, Larry Don Williams, Sr. and wife Debbie, Clovis, New Mexico; a daughter, Gail Elaine Hanson, Marlow; 12 Grandchildren, Preston Williams, Blake Williams, Bobbi Richardson, Samantha Gaither, Jenifur Luna, Swade Hanson, Kasi Williams, Kevin Mizell, Nicole Reyes, L.D. Williams, Jacob Williams and Sarah Williams; eight great grandchildren; a sister and brother in law, Oreene and Charles Jackson, Blanchard, Oklahoma; two brothers and sisters in law, Johnny and Linda Williams, Davis, Oklahoma, and Bobbie and Alice Williams, Del Rio, Texas. His parents, two daughters, Linda Anne and Diana Lee Williams, a grandson, Dusty Williams, and a son in law, Tom Hanson, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest Oklahoma, P.O. Box 2074, Lawton OK 73502.