{"id":2387,"date":"2018-09-24T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:50:57","slug":"william-d-williams-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2018\/09\/24\/william-d-williams-45\/","title":{"rendered":"William D. (Oppenheim) Williams ’45"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>William D. “Bill”\/”Opa” Williams was born January 14, 1928 and passed away August 27, 2018 in Hingham, MA at the age of 90.<\/p>\n

Bill\u00a0was the son of Dora Louise Williams of Easthampton, MA and William Oppenheim of Orange, NJ.\u00a0 Known as William Oppenheim growing up, he was raised\u00a0by his grandparents, Dr. Edward and\u00a0Grace Williams and would later change his name to William D. Williams. Bill was predeceased by his wife and soulmate of 49 years, Gertrud (Gerdi) August 8, 2016.<\/p>\n

Bill was valedictorian of Williston Academy (1945) in Easthampton, MA.\u00a0He served as a Corporal in the Army during WWII and was honorably discharged in October 1947. Bill then attended and graduated from Harvard as class valedictorian in 1950. He went on to get his MBA at Harvard Business School and worked many successful years as a chemical analyst for major firms in Boston and New York.<\/p>\n

Bill\/Opa will be greatly missed by all that knew him, especially his two daughters Alexandra (Shura) Williams and Dr. Hilary (Nina)\u00a0Williams, her husband Gary Culkins and their children Daisy and Wells.<\/p>\n

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the visiting hours Saturday, October 6, 2018 from 12-1 PM at the Pyne Keohane Funeral Home, 21 Emerald St. (off Central St.), Hingham, followed by a memorial service from 1-2 PM. Burial at Hingham Cemetery to follow.<\/p>\n

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William D. “Bill”\/”Opa” Williams was born January 14, 1928 and passed away August 27, 2018 in Hingham, MA at the age of 90. Bill\u00a0was the son of Dora Louise Williams of Easthampton, MA and William Oppenheim of Orange, NJ.\u00a0 Known as William Oppenheim growing up, he was raised\u00a0by his grandparents, Dr. Edward and\u00a0Grace Williams and … Continue reading William D. (Oppenheim) Williams ’45<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[353,635,63],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","tag-class-of-1945","tag-william-d-williams","tag-williston-academy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}