- Date Of Birth: January 11, 1925
- Date Of Death: November 17, 2015
- State: Florida
Kenneth Eugene Williamson
1925-2015
Ken was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and raised on a farm in Lowndes County, Alabama. He graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery in June 1942, and immediately entered the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served in North Africa and in the China-Burma India Theaters. In the CBI, he was stationed in Kunming, China, as a member of the Fourteenth Air Force, until the surrender of Japan, and returned home in April 1946.
He entered the University of Alabama in September 1946, in the electrical engineering school, graduating with a BSEE in 1950. He met his wife, Doris in December 1946, and they were married in June 1947. Upon graduating, he was employed by IBM, in Montgomery, and was assigned in Atlanta and Mobile, before being assigned in 1954, to Eglin, where he installed the first all-electronic computing system for the Air Proving Ground Center.
His proudest accomplishments were his civic involvements in the Fort Walton Beach area.
Ken is survived by his wife of 68 years, Doris; his daughter, Pamela Maygarden of Pensacola; his grandson, Judge, and wife, Amy; and great-grandchildren, Eli and Sydney Maygarden of Gulf Breeze, Florida; granddaughter, Kendall, husband, Jeff; great-grandchildren, Conner and Claire Hampton of Huntsville, Alabama; and brother and wife, Clarence and Frances Williamson of Inverness, Florida; as well as numerous nephews and nieces.
