Lannes Williams Obituary (1923

WINTHROP - Lannes B. 'Bill' Williams, 81, of 27 Hanson St., Winthrop, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta. He was born in Big Spring, Texas on July 3, 1923, the son of Albert and Lillian Maverick of San Antonio, Texas. He attended schools in San Antonio before moving to Washington, D.C., where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and immediately entered the military. Bill was a highly decorated Navy Air Corps veteran of World War II, participating in the air war over Europe, the Normandy invasion and the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre campaigns. After his military service, he returned to Washington, where he attended the Veterans Preparatory School; and on June 30, 1946, he married Barbara Belle Mahar in Chevy Chase, Md. He worked for the next two years as advertising representative and circulation manager of the Silver Spring Post newspaper. For the next 24 years, he served as owner, partner or general manager of different printing companies in the Washington, Philadelphia and Boston markets. In 1972, he purchased the Hallowell Printing Co. in Hallowell and moved from Peabody, Mass., to Winthrop. He and his son-in-law, Bill Borden, operated the company until 1981, when it was sold to Donald Hastings. Bill was an avid saltwater fisherman and was well known for his pioneering of fishing for striped bass and bluefish in the Kennebec River. In 1979, he moved to Charlestown, R.I., where he operated his own boat as a licensed charter boat captain specializing in big-game fishing. In 1983, he was the winner of the prestigious Point Judith Masters Invitational Tuna Tournament. In 1984, he moved back to Winthrop, where he continued to operate a sport-fishing charter boat out of Boothbay Harbor. He also operated a sport-fishing tackle business and conducted seminars on fishing for giant tuna until 1987, when he retired from charter fishing. From the summer of 1987, he was associated with Casco Bay Tackle Co. as a consultant and an associate until the end of 1988. In 1989, he joined the Kennebec Journal newspaper, where he was employed in the circulation department. Bill was a member of American Legion Post 40 in Winthrop and the Disabled American Veterans. He was a former member of the Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md. boards of trade and several graphic arts trade organizations. Bill was predeceased by a son-in-law, William Borden. He is survived by his wife, Barbara 'Bobbie' Williams of Farmingdale; his two daughters, Ellen Sturtevant and husband Mark of Augusta and Jamie Rogers and husband Richard 'Chet' of Winthrop; a brother, James Lee Williams and wife Mary Lou, of Lubbock, Texas; a sister, Lillian Padgitt of San Antonio, Texas; a half sister, Mary Lou Breskin and husband Phil of Anaheim, Calif.; three grandchildren, Robert Borden of Milo, Thomas Borden and wife Tracy of Pownal, and Jennifer Rogers and fiance Christopher of Bangor; his twin grandsons, William and Christopher Borden of Pownal; and special niece Fontaine Epler of Massachusetts. Relatives and friends are invited to visit noon-2 pm Thursday, Dec. 2, at Roberts Funeral Home, 62 Bowdoin St., Winthrop, where a celebration of Bill's life will follow at 2 p.m. Burial will occur in East Winthrop Cemetery.