C.  D.  Williams, known as Chuck by his friends, was born in Sacramento, California in 1939.  Just after he turned seventeen, he forged his parent’s names on the permission forms and enlisted in the U.  S.  Coast Guard.  During the next twenty-seven and one half years, Williams received extensive technical training, completed his formal education, served on four ships and traveled to many parts of the world.  During his Coast Guard career Chuck has ventured above the Artic Circle and walked the streets of Bangkok, Thailand.  He has been to forty-seven islands or island groups in the Pacific and more than a dozen other countries.   Chuck has participated in wildlife and medical research expeditions, typhoon relief operations and a number of other humanitarian actions including search and rescue operations, one involving more than thirty injured survivors.  He served in Vietnam in 1967.  From 1969 to 1971 he was the medical corpsman assigned to an isolated Coast Guard station in a very remote area of Palawan Island in the Southern Philippines.  When Williams retired from the service in 1984, he was a Chief Warrant Officer.  His last duty assignment was, Chief, Health Services Branch, Seventeenth Coast Guard District, in Juneau, Alaska.  Chief Warrant Officer Williams received eighteen medals and awards for his service, including; the Coast Guard Commendation Medal, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal. 

After leaving the Coast Guard, Williams remained in Alaska where he held the position of Risk Manager with the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska.  In 1991 he retired from government service once again and became a licensed independent insurance adjuster, traveling throughout Southeastern Alaska, investigating casualty claims.  During his more than sixteen years as an Alaska resident, Chuck was an avid boater, angler, hunter, camper, motorcyclist and hiker.  He boated and fished most of the waters around the islands and up and down the coast of the Alaska Panhandle.  He hiked and hunted in many areas of the state and when was he was not doing that he would take long, solo, motorcycle odysseys.  He has ridden the Alaska/Canadian Highway, the Canadian Rockies and the Cascade Mountains in Washington State.  On one particularly long trip, he put his bike on an Alaska State Ferry, got off in Prince Rupert, Canada and rode the Coast Highway from there to the Baja peninsula in Mexico.  His return trip north was mostly through the desert country on U.S Highway 395.  He arrived back in Alaska with over twelve thousand new miles on his motorcycle.  After their son, Marty left home and many of their friends moved south, Chuck and his wife, Maripi started thinking about relocating.  His wife suggested Las Vegas.  In the summer of 1994 they made the move.