Andrew Murray Williams Jr. ’38

Mike Williams died Sept. 6, 1998, of injuries suffered in a fall at his home.

He prepared at St. Paul's School. At Princeton Mike was active in hockey and intramural sports and joined Ivy Club.

After graduation he attended Harvard Law School and served in the Navy during WWII. In 1946 he moved to Seattle, where he enjoyed a successful 35-year career as a member of what is now the Perkins Coie law firm. Mike was managing partner in the 1970s; younger lawyers benefited from Mike's fair, evenhanded nature, sound judgment, and practice of personally welcoming them to his home on Vashon Island, thus helping to create a sound foundation for a firm that has grown from about 12 lawyers to about 400 lawyers all over the world. A letter to Mike's class secretary from Dick Prentke '67, a partner at Perkins Coie, concludes: "I can't remember anyone saying anything negative about Mike. He was a true gentleman in the best sense of the word. I was proud that we were both Princetonians." Mike is survived by his wife of 57 years, Edith; his sons, Andrew III and Richard; his daughter, Sarah Chapman; a brother, Ogden; a sister, Hope Wigglesworth; and five grandchildren, to all of whom the class extends its deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1938