Roll Call Tribute

Joe Glenn Williams 

March 14, 1936 - August 17, 2024 

Joe was born on March 14, 1936 in Bessmay, TX and was called home on August 17, 2024 at the age of 88 in Ft. Worth, TX. He was the only child of Chester Glenn and Maxine Baber Williams of Bridge City, TX.

He is survived by his wife, Myrtle Williams, daughters Alysia, Polly and Tammy, son Kelly, seven grandkids, eleven great-grandkids and one great-great-grandchild.

Joe was born in Bessmay, a community near Buna, TX, and grew up in Port Arthur where his father worked at the Gulf Oil Refinery and his mother was a private seamstress and homemaker. He took piano and tap dance lessons, and was a Cub Scout; he attended Port Arthur High School where he played football and ran track. He attended Texas A&M University Class of ‘61 where he ran relays and studied Civil Engineering. He served in the National Guard during and after college where he earned the rank of Sergeant First Class in an Engineering unit.

Joe met Myrtle Nolan on a hayride while attending Texas A&M University and they married on August 30, 1958 in Wellborn, TX. They were a few days short of their 66th wedding anniversary when Joe passed.

Joe attended Port Arthur High School; Schreiner College, Baylor University, Texas A&M (BS Civil Engineering), University of Dallas (MBA and Masters in Management); Kennedy-Western University (PhD Engineering Management).

He worked as a laborer at the Texas Highway Dept., Structural Engineer and Program Manager at LTV in Grand Prairie, TX, and engineer and program manager at Mooney Aircraft in Kerrville, TX.

Joe was an athlete, pilot, college math lecturer (Hill College, Navarro College), Sunday school teacher, church youth counselor, pitcher for the church’s men’s fast-pitch softball team, church deacon, business owner, vocalist, bassist, guitarist, pianist, Texas registered professional engineer, woodworker, computer nerd, and fixer in-general.

He and Myrt have lived in many places and homes, but mostly lived in Texas in College Station, Madisonville, Irving, Corsicana, Kerrville, Bedford, Hillsboro and Hurst, with excursions in Ft. Polk LA, Seattle WA, Huber Heights (Dayton) OH and Camden AR.

Joe’s greatest loves were God, Myrt, his family, then everything else.

Joe requested no funeral be conducted for him. His body was donated to Texas A&M College of Medicine and will be cremated with his cremains being placed on Texas A&M University property.