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NAME: Horace Lee Williams
AGE: 86
ADDRESS: Rockwall, TX
DIED: Jan. 26, 2004
PLACE: Rockwall, TX
BIRTH: Aug. 29, 1917
BIRTH PLACE: Rockwall, TX
PARENTS: Ernest and Gladys Floyd Williams
SPOUSE: Mary Jean Anderson
MARRIAGE: March 8, 1947
PLACE: Rockwall, TX
OCCUPATION: Williams Concrete Company
EDUCATION: Rockwall High School, and attended the University of Oklahoma
VETERAN: commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps at the beginning of
World War II, and served as a navigator on B-24s in the 98th Bomb Group, 415th
Squadron
SURVIVORS: wife Mary Jean; son, Horace Lee Williams, Jr.; a brother, Dr. Bob
Williams and wife Beverly; sister, Mary Zona Burns and husband Sam.; brother-
in-law, Dr. William L. Anderson and wife Mary Lou; nieces, Julie Willhite and
husband Curtis, Dr. Andra Anderson, Mary Sue Smith and husband Robert Smith
III; and nephews, Jim Williams and wife Sherry, Dr. William Chilton Anderson,
Dr. William Clifton Anderson. Also surviving are two uncles, Clyde "Bounce"
Williams and Richard Williams, both of Rockwall, and a host of cousins and
friends.
SERVICES: 2:00 pm, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004 First Baptist Church, M.L. Jones
Chapel
OFFICIATING: Rev. Steve Swofford and Dr. Dowell Loftis
COMMENTS: On Feb., 1944, his plane, the "Black Magic", flying out of North
Africa, was shot down over Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Horace Lee
and the remaining crew of 11 successfully bailed out of the plane, and later
all were captured by the Germans and sent to various German prison camps.
Horace Lee was held as a prisoner of war in Barth, Germany, until liberated by
the Russians in May of 1945. Following liberation, he was airlifted by the
United States Air Force to U.S. held territory. Horace Lee continued to serve
the Air Force after the war as a weather reconnaissance flyer.
SOURCE: Rockwall County News submitted by Bunny Freeman
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