Salute to Ben Williams, LC-M, Class of '94

[Guest ECBucFan]

Linda Warner, LC-M activities director/assistant principal, handled calls from teachers sharing memories of their former student Thursday afternoon.

She dug out an old 1994 yearbook and flipped through it looking for the five photographs of Williams. She stopped on his graduation photograph.

"Even in high school he looked like a Marine," she said. "He was a well-mannered young man. He was quiet, but if you wanted something done, he was quick to volunteer to help with anything."

Some of his former teachers also stopped by the school Thursday, including football coach David Williams. Williams, no relation, described the former star athlete as someone who was always willing to fill in and play any position on the football field. When he would come to school all banged up the next day, people would ask him if he wanted to take the day off and he would always say, "Nobody else is taking the day off," according to Williams.

"He was a tough football player," Warner said.

Williams, who played both offense and defense, was on the all-district team in both his junior and senior years. For his efforts, Williams was nominated for the Willie Ray Smith Award.

Williams athletic prowess didn't stop on the football field. He was also on a track relay team that broke the school's record.

Warner said that she talked with Williams's mother and sister, who are now living in Indiana. They wondered if the school was going to do something in his honor.

Plans are still being finalized to determine if there will be a memorial in the school auditorium or a local church, but something will be done, Warner said.

May God bless and comfort the Willams family...Sincerely, ECBucFan

[Gasilla]

Linda Warner' date=' LC-M activities director/assistant principal, handled calls from teachers sharing memories of their former student Thursday afternoon.

She dug out an old 1994 yearbook and flipped through it looking for the five photographs of Williams. She stopped on his graduation photograph.

"Even in high school he looked like a Marine," she said. "He was a well-mannered young man. He was quiet, but if you wanted something done, he was quick to volunteer to help with anything."

Some of his former teachers also stopped by the school Thursday, including football coach David Williams. Williams, no relation, described the former star athlete as someone who was always willing to fill in and play any position on the football field. When he would come to school all banged up the next day, people would ask him if he wanted to take the day off and he would always say, "Nobody else is taking the day off," according to Williams.

"He was a tough football player," Warner said.

Williams, who played both offense and defense, was on the all-district team in both his junior and senior years. For his efforts, Williams was nominated for the Willie Ray Smith Award.

Williams athletic prowess didn't stop on the football field. He was also on a track relay team that broke the school's record.

Warner said that she talked with Williams's mother and sister, who are now living in Indiana. They wondered if the school was going to do something in his honor.

Plans are still being finalized to determine if there will be a memorial in the school auditorium or a local church, but something will be done, Warner said.

May God bless and comfort the Willams family...Sincerely, ECBucFan[/quote']

What happened?

[WOS92]

If I'm not mistaken, he was killed in Iraq. God bless him and his family.

[Guest ECBucFan]

I thought everyone knew. It was all over the news. Coach Williams was on TV, lamenting how it seems like we tend to lose "the best" in times like these. Ben had said "He was born to serve his country", and immensely proud to do so. We lost a fine man...

[Critter]

It's people like Ben Williams that make us free to say and do what we want to, Thank you Ben, and GOD be with you.