Curtis Williams,Sr.

Josie Curtis Williams, Sr., 97, died December 17, 2013 at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at Piedmont Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ray Howell III officiating. Burial will follow with Masonic graveside rites at Forest Hill Memorial Park. Visitation will be held from 1-2 PM prior to the service at the Funeral Home. Mr. Williams was born on May 21, 1916 in Darlington,S.C. , the son of Marity Henry Williams and Rosa Hendricks Williams. Mr Williams was born in the modest, cotton mill village home where he grew up. He took his first jobs delivering newspapers, shining shoes and and bagging groceries at age 11, before and after attending school. When he turned 14 years old, Mr. Williams entered the workforce full-time in the cotton mill. In his early twenties, Mr. Williams left the mill to enter the furniture industry where he eventually created his own unique line of grandfather clocks as the founder and CEO of Heritage Clock Company in Lexington,NC. Mr. Williams was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving homorably during World War II. He was active in the civic and community life of Lexington,NC and Myrtle Beach,S.C. where he and his wife Virginia retired in 1991.Mr. Williams was a long-time member of the Masonic Lodge and Shriner’s International. He was also a former president of the Lexington Kiwanis Club. He later served as First Vice President of the Myrtle Beach Lions Club and was a lion of the year. Mr Williams was also a Deacon at the First Baptist Church in Lexington. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Virginia Davis Williams, his brothers, Roy, M H., David and Weldon Williams and his sisters Mattie Loyd, Magdelene Denny and Helen Boseman. Mr. Williams is survived by his son Dr. Curtis Williams (Cathy) of Panama City, Fla.; his daughter Bettie Hayes of Murrell’s Inlet,S.C.; grandchildren Scott Williams, Jaema Hayes, Kelli Hayes, Shannon Lord (Rusty) and Curtis Hayes (Dana); as well as eight great grandsons, two great granddaughters and on great-great granddaughter. Mr. Williams also leaves behind his dear friend Miss Alice Lee and her daughter Liz Crowe ( John Hunter). Memorials can be made to the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. Online condolences may be made at www.piedmontfuneralhome.com.