Williamson Rites at 2:30 Saturday in Curry Chapel
Prominent and highly esteem business man dies here last night

Funeral services for William Clarence Williamson, prominent Dyersburg business man, highly esteemed citizen and former Dyer County sheriff, who died at 6:25 o'clock last night at his home in the Fairfax Apartments on Masonic street, which he owned, will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow Saturday afternoon.

The services will be held in the chapel of the Curry Funeral Home. The rites will be said by Paul Brock, minister of the Church of Christ. Mr. Williamson's death followed an illness of several weeks. He was sixty-seven years old.

Born in Dyer County, Mr. Williamson was a lifelong resident and was active throughout his adult years in politics, civic and social affairs of Dyersburg and Dyer County.

He was the son of the last John Williamson and Mrs. Sallie B. Wheeler Williamson, members early Dyer county settlers. In early manhood Mr. Williamson was in the merchantile business at Lennox. He later was associated with W. R. Biggs and the late Harvie Meriwether in the furniture business in Dyersburg and still later was a member of the old firm Meriwether Furniture Compnay.

In the late thirties he served for three consecutive terms as sheriff of Dyer county retiring from that post in 1941 after having held the office for the record period of time in Dyer county.

Mr. Williamson was a member of the Mount Pleasant Methodist church. He was a mason and a member of Al Chymia Temple of Shriners, Memphis. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Annie Dawson, member of one of Dyer county's oldest and most prominent families and a sister Mrs. Joe May of Baton Rouge, LA.

Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Dyersburg with J. W. Curry and Son in charge of the funeral arrangements.