“PRECIOUS LORD,TAKE MY HAND.LEAD ME ON,LET ME STAND.I AM TIRED,I AM WEAK,I AM WORN. THROUGH THE STORM,THROUGH THE
NIGHT, LEAD ME ONTO THE LIGHT. TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD,  AND LEAD ME HOME.”

ON JANUARY 10,2020, MR. CHARLES WILLIAMS QUICKLY AND QUIETLY LEFT HIS OLD HOME BEHIND AND ENTERED HIS NEW HOME. MR. WILLIAMS WAS BORN JANUARY 19,1947,IN EARLY COUNTY, BLAKELY, GA, TO THE LATE MR. KING WILLIAMS,SR. AND THE LATE MRS. DOROTHY PITTMAN WILLIAMS. HE WAS A 1968 GRADUATE OF
WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL IN BLAKELY, GEORGIA. UPON GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL ,HE LEFT BLAKELY AND MOVED TO  FORTLAUDERDALE, FLORIDA WHERE HE HAS REMAINED SINCE. MR. WILLIAMS ACCEPTED CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR AT AN EARLY AGE AND LATER JOINED MT.OLIVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN FORT
LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL HIS HEALTH FAILED HIM. HE LOVED THE LORD AND WAS A KIND AND CARING INDIVIDUAL.  ALTHOUGH HE HAD NO CHILDREN OF HIS OWN, HE SHARED HIS LOVE AMONG HIS MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS. ONCE HE GOT SETTLED IN FORTLAUDERDALE, HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AT SUNTRUSTBANK. FROM THIS CAREER HE WAS ABLE TO RETIRE YOUNG ENOUGH TO ENJOY SOME WORKFREE YEARS. CHARLES WAS THE LAST BORN OF SIXTEEN CHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY EIGHT BROTHERS BY THE NAMES OF OSCAR,MURRY, J.W.,KINGJR., ALVIN, LOYLESS, RAYMOND AND SHERMAN WILLIAMS. HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY 4 SISTERS BY THE NAMES OF NELLA MAE  SALTER, INEZ SALTER, ALICE WILLIAMS,AND DOROTHYA. JOHNSON. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES ,3 BROTHERS, REV. EARL WILLIAMS OF QUINCY,FL; WILLIE JIM WILLIAMS, AZZIE, OF BLAKELY, GA; AND J.T. WILLIAMS OF ATLANTA,GA.; A SPECIAL NIECE,GERALDINE SHORTER OF BLAKELY, GA; AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSINS AND FRIENDS

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