Memorial Service: 1:00 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2022
Location: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Dr. McKim Williams, 89, passed away on August 15, 2022. Born in Baltimore, MD to Mary Camilla McKim and Dr. Huntington Williams, he was a longtime resident of Baltimore and later of Newport News, VA. Dr. Williams practiced anesthesiology at Riverside Hospital.
Dr. Williams graduated from The Gilman School in Baltimore. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Doctor of Medicine from Duke University. He served his internship at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle before returning to Duke for two years of specialization in anesthesiology. After medical training, Dr. Williams moved to Newport News, where he practiced anesthesia for four years. In 1966 he was drafted into the Navy. He trained at Camp Pendleton outside San Diego and was sent to Vietnam, where he served as the Chief of Anesthesia for the First Medical Battalion, First Marine Division during the Tet Offensive of 1968. Dr. Williams returned to serve his final six months of service at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. He retired at the rank of Commander and returned to private practice at Riverside Hospital until his retirement.
Dr. Williams was a member of the Bachelors Cotillon of Baltimore, the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Virginia Medical Association, The American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists. He was also a member of the Mariners’ Museum Bronze Door Society, the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, the James River Country Club and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newport News, VA.
Dr. Williams, affectionately known as Mac to his friends, loved sailing, fishing, tennis and synchronized chiming clocks.
Dr. Williams is survived by three children: Melinda Williams of Williamsburg, VA; Ann McKim Williams Vari of Falls Church, VA; and McKim Williams, Jr. of Newport News, VA; his four grandchildren: Jeremy Hollar and Abigail Hollar of San Francisco, CA and Thomas Vari and Ellen Vari of Washington, D.C. He outlived his first wife, Jane Dildy of Texarkana, TX and his second wife, Janice Cardin Morse of LaFollette, TN.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 25, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Newport News, VA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Mariners’ Museum or St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Arrangements by Weymouth funeral Home.