{"id":109200,"date":"2025-03-08T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=109200"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:37:49","slug":"earl-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/08\/earl-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earl Williams of Floral City, Florida passed away March 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025 at the age of 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl was born June 11<sup>th<\/sup> ,1937 in Jefferson City TN to Joseph B. Williams and Josie Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally born Walter Williams after his uncle; he was renamed Earl at the age of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After moving to Florida in 1955, Earl worked for Coca Cola bottling company. He then worked for Standard Paving in St Petersburg for 15 years, West Coast utilities for 17 years, and Pinellas County Utilities for 15 years, retiring in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl enjoyed fishing, car racing, being in the outdoors, and spending time with his family. After retirement, he moved to Floral City and spent his time gardening and working in his workshop. Earl was a kind neighbor always willing to lend a hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is predeceased by his first wife Nona Faye Williams and his grandson Jeremy Lee Olek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl was survived by his soulmate Catherine Underwood, his children: Vickie Lynn Olek and her fiancee Bobby Taylor, Dana Earlene Prince and her husband Gary Prince, Deborah Wright-Diaz and her husband Walter Diaz, and Robin Earl Williams. Grandchildren: John Jacob Olek and his wife Kim Olek, James Michael Olek, Taylor Michael Prince, Leah Faye Prince, and Danielle Amber Wright. Great grandchildren: Nevaeh Rose Lewis and Jax Clayton Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held at Chas. Davis Funeral Home at 3075 South Florida Ave, Inverness, FL 34450 on March 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025 from 12pm to 2pm. Memorial Service will begin at 2pm. Earl will be laid to rest at&nbsp; Hills of Rest Cemetery at 7646 South Florida Ave, Floral City, FL 34436. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting memorial donations be made to the American Diabetes Association or American Lung Association. His memory will forever be in our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl Williams of Floral City, Florida passed away March 8th, 2025 at the age of 87. Earl was born June 11th ,1937 in Jefferson City TN to Joseph B. Williams and Josie Brown. Originally born Walter Williams after his uncle; he was renamed Earl at the age of five. After moving to Florida in 1955, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":109201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109202,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109200\/revisions\/109202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}