Herman "John" Williamson, son of the late Herman Williamson and Ruby Maurene Jackson Box, was born Dec. 13, 1946, in Holcomb, Mo., and died at his home near Puxico on May 14, 2013, at the age of 66.
Herman had lived in Southeast Missouri all his life and had lived near Puxico the past five years. He was a truck driver with Faith Global Transportation and attended the First General Baptist Church in Bloomfield.
On Dec. 11, 1971, he married Nina Horn in Essex.
Surviving are his wife, Nina Williamson of Puxico; four daughters, Maurena Jenkins of Iowa, Kim Lavy of Troy, Mo., Janie Gau of Puxico, and Shaina Smith of Moscow Mills, Mo.; 14 grandchildren, two sisters, Wanda Harris and Linda McCarty, both of Bloomfield; four brothers, David Williamson of Troy, Mo., Terry Box of Calif., Ronnie Acup of Poplar Bluff, and Todd Ingram of Michigan. Other relatives and friends also survive.
He was preceded in death by three cousins raised as siblings, Wanda Propst, Carros Worley, and Charles Evans.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, May 19, 2013, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, May 20, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield with Rev. Ron Stevens of Bloomfield officiating. Interment will follow in the Fairview Cemetery near Puxico with Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements.