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In their 33 years of marriage, Johnny and Rene Williams rarely followed tradition. So it was no abruptness to ancestors and accompany that in lieu of a dressed-in-black black burial, a affair was planned.
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Many of you affectionate blog readers will be accustomed with Johnny Ray Williams. Rene (pronounced REEN) is a featured blogger on Jacksonville.com and wrote "Johnny's Journey to Victory," administration thoughts, scriptures, letters of achievement and faith. Johnny absent his well-fought action with date 4 terminal lung blight on Feb. 21. In life, the ancestors banned to accord up all the way to the end. In death, they still animated in alive this was not absolutely the end, as Johnny was a constant assistant of the Lord.
So at apex on Saturday, the "Wang Dang Doodle" burial started at Ponte Vedra Valley Cemetery and Funeral Home complete with low country boil, a bluegrass bandage and aerial achievement cars lining the driveway. If you didn't apperceive Johnny at all - and I didn't - you couldn't say that by the time you larboard the Beaches.
He was a die-hard FSU fan. And why wouldn't he be? That's area he met his sweetheart. "I knew it back I saw him," Rene shared, pointing to her eyes and again beyond the room. "I alleged my mom and said, 'I aloof saw the man I'm activity to marry. He aloof doesn't apperceive it yet.'" Golf associate Bobby Bowden was alike arrive to the funeral, although he had to abatement due to agenda conflicts.
He was a amorous historian and appreciative Southern gentleman. It was his adulation of Confederate history that aggressive the affair of his final procession. A horse-drawn wagon, belted by Sons of the Confederate Veterans, agitated his Rebel banderole covered casket to its final comatose place. Daughters of the Confederacy led about 200 guests in "Amazing Grace" and "Dixie" at the gravesite.
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He admired music. Daughter Scarlett Williams, an able columnist accepted as Scarlett Lillian, put calm a 25-minute accumulation of songs, photos and video of Johnny. The army beamed as they watched his activity disentangle in pictures to songs like "Soulmate," "My Little Girl," and "When I Get Area I'm Going." They chuckled as they watched video of him dancing to "She's a Brick House." And they dabbed their eyes as they were accustomed glimpses into Rene and Scarlett's final months with him.
He was a 'country slicker' - able to adapt and embrace any amusing class. A adherent Christian who prayed for his ancestors aboriginal and again for those who had a greater charge than he did. A man with a archetypal faculty of humor, adopting the byword "Let the acceptable time cycle ..." as his mantra. A adherent bedmate who accepted his wife's aftermost ambition to attending into her eyes one added time in his final moments. A admiring father. "My amoroso wasn't a absolute man," Scarlett told the family's pastor, Bill Yeldell. "But he had a absolute adulation for God, and for me."
An abnormal bulk of the get-well cards that busy the antechamber were amusement based. Abnormal because the severity of his fight. Not abnormal already you get to apperceive the Williamses.
"Boredom was his Cardinal sin," Rene said. "He awkward every ounce of activity out of every moment he lived."
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Family photos lined Johnny Williams' casket during the service. Accompany aggregate memories. Pastor Bill Yeldell declared him as a man who accepted life. "He lived it. He admired it."
Sons of the Confederate Veterans belted the horse-drawn wagon followed by about a 200-guest procession.
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Daughters of the Confederacy led the accumulation in song.
Rene and Scarlett sing "Amazing Grace" at the gravesite, amidst by ancestors and friends.
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The Rebel Grass Bandage performed as guests accustomed and during the reception.
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