Services set for soldier killed in Iraq
Advertiser Staff
Funeral services for Army Sgt. Eugene Williams, who was killed March 29 by a suicide bomber in Iraq, will be held Friday in Mililani.
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Williams, 24, was killed when a man posing as a taxi driver pulled up to a roadblock north of Najaf, waved to the troops for help, then detonated a bomb in the car. Three other U.S. soldiers also were killed in the blast.
Sgt. Eugene Williams was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Visitation will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel; service at 7 p.m. Burial is at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mililani Memorial Park.
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson, commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division (Light), will attend the Saturday service. Williams was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, and the medals will be presented to his wife, Brandy, Army officials said.
Williams was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Ga., and left for the Gulf in December.
He served at Schofield Barracks with the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment from April 1998 to December 2001.
Brandy Williams and her 3-year-old daughter, Mya, live in Waipahu. Brandy is pregnant and expecting the couple's second child in June.
Williams also is survived by his parents, Ulysses and Betty; grandmother, Emma; brothers, Eric and Gerry; and sister, Lori Ann Ackert.
