Floyd E. Williams Jr. was born on July 18, 1933, in Pine Bluff Arkansas, to proud parents, Mabel Ward Williams & Floyd Edward Williams, Sr. His schooling began at Burton Elementary on Vashon Island, and he graduated from Bremerton High School. After high school, he joined the military and served in Japan & Korea as a co-pilot for the United States Air Force. Staff Sergeant Floyd E. Williams, Jr. was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserves on Jan. 14, 1961.

 

Later he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington.

As a true self-starter, Floyd began his career in real estate, later founding & managing one of the most reputable African American-owned real estate firms in the Greater Seattle area, Pride Realty. He went above and beyond to assist clients of all economic abilities in home ownership, often writing loans. In addition, he had a dual career with the US Postal Service. He started out as a mail carrier and retired as a mail handler at the Fourth & Lander Post Office, where he had a stellar attendance record. By this time Floyd had married his first wife, Joan, and they were to raise two children and build their family home on Mercer Island.

 

Throughout their marriage, they enjoyed both family trips and get-togethers at home. Floyd took extremely good care of Joan during her fight against leukemia, even moving the two of them to Houston to be close to the campus of the MD Anderson Medical Center for treatment. Joan passed away in May of 1997.

 

Floyd would remarry a few years later and enjoyed 18 years of marriage to Vivian (Bown) Williams. Together they traveled to South Africa, Peru, Brazil, and many places in between. Floyd was right by Vivian’s side as she lost her battle with cancer in 2018.