 Lyle
D. Williams March 9th, 1914 - June 26th,
2007 Resident of Pleasant Hill Lyle
Williams died in
Walnut Creek June 26th at age 93.
Lyle was born in Eaglerock,
CA and grew up in
Napa. He graduated from Napa High
School in 1932. He then joined the Navy
and did a peace-time cruise on the U.S.S
San Francisco (a ship his father had
helped build while working at the Mare
Island Shipyard). That ship took him
from
San Francisco around the Cape and
up the
Eastern Seaboard. He had fond
memories of that trip. He also served
during WWII with the "Lighter than Air"
fleet that patrolled the
West Coast out of Moffet Field.
After the service he worked as a
civilian for the Navy at the
Oakland Naval Base supervising
the transportation of material from
ships to the base. He later did the same
job at the Army base in
Oakland. He retired in 1970 after
35 years service. One of the jobs he was
most proud of was serving on the Grand
Jury of Contra Costa County in 1973.
Lyle is survived by his wife of 65 years
Jacqueline and by his two daughters
Connie Collins and Lisa Williams
Willbrand, son-in-laws Steve Collins and
John Willbrand, grandsons Matthew,
Jesse, Nick and Ben and great grandsons
Andrew and Evan and niece Linda Williams
Fitsgerald.
The family
would like to give a special thanks to
the wonderful people at
Sunnyvale Home for the
extraordinary and loving care they gave
to Lyle in the last months and days of
his life. There will be a private
service at sea for Lyle through the
Neptune Society. It was his wish for his
ashes to be scattered where he sailed
through the Golden Gate so many years
before. Please send any contributions in
his memory to Kaiser Hospice.
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