Thomas Joseph was born in 1946. He was the son of Thomas Williams of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
He entered service from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.He was killed in action in 1969.[1][2][3]
Killed In Viet Combat
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas [Victor Herman] Williams of Washington street, Bay St. Louis, have received word their son, Cpl. Thomas Joseph Williams, 22, U.S. Army, was killed in action in Vietnam on June 5 while encountering a hostile force in a combat operation. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Williams, a graduate of the Valena C. Jones High School in Bay St. Louis, entered service on Nov. 4, 1968, and was serving with the 112th Infantry Company D. Fourth Infantry Division.
His mother received a letter Thursday, dated May 27, in which Corporal Williams wrote, “C Company got in a fight a day ago and now we have to go where the worst is because four of their men got killed, But I am not letting that worry me. Tell the family hello for me. This is all now.......I am praying night and day and that is needed over here.”
Corporal Williams was one of 15 children of Mr. and Mrs. Williams. He and two other children graduated the same year from high school. One brother, Wilbert Williams, 19, was killed in an automobile accident in Bay St. Louis in November 1967.
Corporal Williams, whose father served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific in World War II, was born on Oct. 11, 1946, in Bay St. Louis. He was a member of the Valena C. Jones United Methodist Church and worked at the NASA Mississippi Test Facility prior to entering service.
Other than his parents, he is survived by six brothers, Arthur Leander Williams, New Orleans; Gerald David Williams, Job Corps, Glice, Oregon. Victor Herman Jr., George Mark, Perry Norman, Donald Napoleon, Bay St. Louis; seven sisters, Mrs. Vettie Grace Favre, Willemnia [Willemena] Celestine, Mary Elizabeth, Thelma Jean, Sarah Louis, Victorine Gladys and Mabel Ann Williams, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Turner Parker, Bay St. Louis. [4]
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