Charles Williams

Charles Williams was born in Albany, GA to Charles W. Williams and Betty Lou Heintz Williams. He was their third child and spent his childhood growing up around the country as his family followed his Air Force father from base to base. His father passed away suddenly when Charles was twelve. In 1968, at the age of 16 he met the love of his life Victoria Lynn McCormack in McLean, Virginia. They started dating shortly after that, much to the consternation of her father, a Southern Baptist Minister. Reverend Billy McCormack was not at all happy with this rebellious hippie. In 1969, after graduating from McLean High School, Charles enrolled at East Carolina State University. After wo years of hitchhiking first back to Viginia then to Louisiana to visit his love they decided to get married on June 1, 1971. Charles put himself through Centenary College by working the admissions desk during the weekend graveyard shifts at what was then Confederate Memorial Hospital. He would delate generations of listeners over the next 50 years with the stories from those years. In 1973, Charles and Vicky moved to Houston for Charles to attend gradute school at Rice University. While in Houston they had their first child David. After finishing his graduate program they moved back to the Shreveport area where their daughter Rachael was born. They would move and travel a lot over the next thirty years. But they finally made their home once again in Shreveport. In the meantime Charles found time to own a Swiss Colony franchise store in Cortana Mall in Baton Rouge, he sold and installed gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers, and worked many other jobs.

Always a believer in education he took an opportunity to get his MBA while working at a chemical plant in Corpus Christi. After that the education bug bit him again. Over the next six years he would work days teaching and then work nights on his doctoral degrees. He earned both is DBA and D.Eng. at Louisiana Tech University while teaching at Cedar Creek School in Ruston. This was the start of a new phase that would see him as a professor at Troy State University, East Texas Baptist University, University of the Virgin Islands, Midway, and elsewhere. When he wasn’t in the classroom he loved spending his time with his beloved Victoria, his kids, and his grandkids. He was the rock of the family. Not only was he always there for his wife, their kids, and grandkids, but also for his in-laws, friends, and anyone else in need. Nearly every Sunday he would pick up their great-niece Jaclynn and their granddaughter Bridget for pizza and tea. Always making sure to amuse and irritate them as he had done with the generations before. Under that rough exterior though was a great heart.

That heart finally gave way on April 30, 2026. After a lifetime full of love and fun he slipped from us into the waiting arms of his savior. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles Williams and Betty Lou Williams, his brother Sheldon (Hap), his sister Kay and his much loved in-laws Billy and Carolyn McCormack. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Victoria, their daughter Rachael and their son David Williams and his wife Star. Grandchildren Sean, Elliot, and Bridget. Along with a host of friends and family who loved and admired him. A celebration of life service will be held Saturday, May 16 from 2-4 PM at Rose Neath Funeral Home on Southside Drive. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to the Elijah Streams Ministries for the drilling of fresh water wells in Africa.

A visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, 2026 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Dr., Shreveport, Louisiana.