John Frederick Williams II

John Williams was born seventy years ago on December 2, 1955 and died Tuesday evening, January 27, 2026. He is survived by his beloved wife, Rosemary, his cherished sons, Bryan and Devon, and his brother and lifelong friend, Michael Williams.

John's hometown was Saint Albans, West Virginia, but for many years he was, with his growing family, a resident of White Plains, New York. He and Rosemary found on Greenridge Avenue the warmest of neighborhoods, a true community.

John studied Landscape Architecture at West Virginia University and Psychology at Fairmont State. From these beginnings he built an illustrious career as director of marketing at Hayden Wegman and then as National Director of Sustainable Development at HDR Engineering, Inc. Since 2012 he served as Chairman and CEO at Impact Infrastructure, Inc.

Additionally, well, there's much additionally, he found time to be an adjunct professor and lecturer at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard, served on the board of NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) for ten years, served as four-term board chair (2018-2021) at the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI). And for twenty years he was an esteemed and accomplished elder at the Stamford Church of Christ in Stamford, CT.

His mission was always to "do good and great things." This was his mantra and became the mantra for so many whose lives he impacted.

His paradise was Martha's Vineyard where his family vacationed for thirty five years and where he built his Daydream home which he and Rosemary happily and graciously shared with a multitude of guests.

He loved his family, his Stamford church family, his Greenridge neighbors, his White Plains community, his Vineyard neighbors, all his morning Facebook peeps (laughing regulars all) and his many co-workers throughout his career.

Most of all, he loved God and quietly put others before himself. He continued his parents' generosity by caring financially for those less fortunate, not always with even Rosemary knowing. His daily prayer, which his sons have taken over, was: "Give us grateful hearts, Our Father, for all thy mercies and make us mindful of the needs of others." He lived this out until his final hour.