Born July 13, 1941
Mount Union, Pennsylvania
Died March 25, 2025
Town of Groton, Vermont
Details of services
Services will be held at 1400L (2PM) on Monday, July 14th, 2025 at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, PA. Please contact coordinating family at stewards@ezilis-respite.org.
Harold Williams Jr., Retired Chief Master Sergeant of the US Air Force, passed away on his family farm in Vermont at 1000L on March 25th, 2025 at 83 years wise. Sonny was born in Mount Union, PA; he was the first born of the late Harold Williams Sr. and the late Mattie Lee Moore -Williams-Faulkner. Harold chose to spend his youth with his late great-grandmother Stella “Red” Sanders, who raised him from the time he was 10 years old.
Heavily influenced by his first grade teacher Mrs. Rudy, Harold graduated from Captain Jack Joint Senior High School in Mount Union in May of 1959. He was close with Shirley Ruth (Vaughn) Cook and Wallace “Mike” Green.
After working a few odd jobs in town, better than two cents a pound for picking beans, he entered military service in July 1960. He traveled the US from Pittsburgh and Coraopolis, to Baltimore, to DC, to Denver, and New Mexico. He traveled the world from Panama, to Italy, to Vietnam, to Turkey, and Germany. Harold retired in September 1993 with 30 years and 29 days of active service.
After retirement, Harold settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, volunteering for the Montessori School on Jonestown Rd. and as a teacher’s aide for the first through third grades in the Paxtonia Elementary School.
In 1995, Harold worked as an expeditor (a glorified stock hand according to him) for Hecht Co. in the Harrisburg East Mall. Starting in January 1998 he was employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Public Utility Commission, Bureau of Consumer Services, as an Interviewer, Utility Termination Investigator, retiring as a Utility Complaints Investigator in July 2013.
Besides his mother and father, and maternal great-grandmother, Harold was preceded in death by his stepfather, William T. Faulkner, a son, choreographer and dancer Leonard M. Wylliams; three sisters Jean L. Faulkner, JoAnn Faulkner, and Carol Ann Williams (Faulkner); five brothers, George W. “Trot” Faulkner, Oscar “Petey” Faulkner, Edward L. “Eddie” Faulkner, James W. “Jimmy” Williams, and Kenneth L. “Hussel” Faulkner.
Harold leaves to celebrate his life his wife Elizabeth Barrow-Williams, of Harrisburg PA; two daughters, Kimberly M. Williams-Howbert (Shawn), and Dana Y. Williams of Denver, CO; one son, Tyler E. Williams (Titan) of Groton, VT; a grandson Sirwestly H. Williams and great-granddaughter TeAnna Joy Williams of Laveen, AZ; four brothers, Floyd L. “Butch” Faulkner (Sally) of Coraopolis, PA; Joseph T. Faulkner (Linda) of Pittsburgh, PA; Edward L. Rogers of Kennet Sq., PA; Michael P. Faulkner of Aliquippa, PA and two sisters Edwina B. Norris of Oshkosh, WI and Cynthia L. Faulkner of McKees Rocks, PA. He also leaves a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews and many other family members and friends.
