Wade Smith Williams, age 85, went home to be with his Lord on Tuesday evening, April 25, 2023, after a lengthy illness with frontal lobe Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease.
A 1955 graduate of Jackson County High School, Wade learned meat butchering by trade and worked at Cooper and Martin as well as Giant Foods.
Wade experienced his dream come true on April 1, 1965, when he joined the Tennessee Highway Patrol being initially assigned to the Cookeville District. As Wade rose through the ranks, he completed Police Administration courses at Northwestern University. In 1981, Wade was promoted to Captain and made Supervisor over the Financial Responsibility Unit at the Department of Safety and Homeland Security State Headquarters in Nashville where he served until he retired on February 28, 1999, with 34 years of dedicated service.
It was joked that the “honey-do” list at home was too long as Wade went back to work one week after retirement as a U.S. Federal Marshall where he worked until he fully retired on April 23, 2003.
Wade was a member of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Officers Association, Tennessee Highway Patrol Retired Officers Association, U.S. Retired Trooper Association, American Association of State Troopers and Fraternal Order of Police. He was also a Shriner and a 60-year 32nd Degree Mason, member at Difficult Lodge #451 in Carthage, Tennessee.
Wade always wanted to make sure his family ate well by raising our beef and pork and then butchering and putting it in our freezer. Besides the meat, he also produced a large vegetable garden and orchard so that Mom could can and freeze. There were no Green Giant vegetables in our house.
Wade was preceded in death by parents, Lucille and Lon Williams; brothers, Donald Williams and Rusty Williams; sisters, Belle Tweedie and Maude Webster.
He is survived by his devoted wife of 60 years, Suszanne Sisemore Williams; son, Robert Wade Williams, La Vergne; daughter, Jennifer (Corey) Kilpatrick; granddaughters, Kaelyn and Breanne Kilpatrick, all of Cane Ridge.
The family would like to thank the privately hired home health care workers, especially London Warington, during the last two weeks of his life; as well as Amedisys Hospice Nurses and Techs who came to assist. You’ll never know how much you meant to us.
Funeral services and visitation will be at Covenant Baptist Church, 6820 Nolensville Road, Brentwood, TN. Visitation will be Friday, April 28, 2023, from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. with funeral services following at 1:00 p.m. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. https://www.woodbinefuneralhome.com
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