Mr. Samuel Lee Williamson

July 15, 1932 - June 28, 2014

Mr. Samuel Williamson entered into rest on Saturday June 28, 2014. Funeral service will be held on Monday July 7, 2014 at 12 noon from Bethel A.M.E. Church, 819 Woodrow Street, Columbia. Interment to follow in the Promised Land Cemetery. He was born in Florence, South Carolina on July 15, 1932 to the late Jacob Jackson and Mary McCray Williamson. He was reared by the St. Mark Baptist Church family. In 1951 he married his lifetime love and partner Sarah Eaddy and moved to New York City. To this union six children were born. In New York, Samuel became a truck driver for the United States Postal Service and was briefly a part of the Masons. In 1986, Mr. Williamson relocated his family back to South Carolina and continued to work for the Postal Service until he retired. Mr. Williamson became a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia, South Carolina and served faithfully on the Usher's Board and Audiovisual Ministry for serveral years until his health declined. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Jacqueline Hickland and two sons, Samuel Williams Jr., and Leroy Williamson. Left to cherish fond memories of him are his loving wife of sixty-one years, Sarah E. Williamson; daughters, Frances, Sarah Jean Williamson, Geraldine Bolton and Jacqueline Williams; a sister, Willie Mae Castle; twenty-two grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and a host of other loving relatives and friends. A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel, 2548 Main Street, Columbia are in charge of these arrangements.