Legion honors Barbara Williams with 2014 Life Changer Award

Barbara Williams accepts the American Legion Life Changer
Award from Post 227 commander Shane Freund.
Photo courtesy American Legion

American Legion Post 227 in Shoreline awarded their 2014 Life Changer Award to Barbara Williams.

Barbara was nominated by Mike Servais for her work as volunteer director of the Kiwanis Camp Casey program. The award was presented at a Post 227 meeting on Tuesday evening, September 2, 2014. In addition to a framed certificate, Barbara received a $200 gift certificate to dine in the Sky City restaurant atop the Seattle Space Needle.

This is  the third year the post has given the award.  It was won in 2012 by Mrs.  Lea Coates, whose wise counsel kept a young family from breaking up.  It was won in 2013 by Bill Briggs, Sr., who helped thousands of children with disabilities attend a free, week-long summer camp.

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2014 Life Changer Award 

American Legion Post 227 

Barbara Williams has spent much of her life serving disabled children. As a high school student, she served as a counselor for Kiwanis Camp Casey, a one-week camp held on Whidbey Island each summer for children with physical disabilities. Later she served as a therapist in the public schools. 

After retirement, she became the volunteer director of the Kiwanis Camp Casey program. She is the main driver in raising the $50,000 in funding needed annually and in all other aspects of putting on the camp. She is a very active member of the North Central Seattle Kiwanis club. She is an active member of a local church and teaches vacation bible school each summer. She met her husband, Paul, a surgeon, when they were both high school counselors at Kiwanis Camp Casey. Barbara and Paul have two grown children. Barbara was nominated by Mike Servais, a Shoreline resident and a volunteer in the Kiwanis Camp Casey program before he moved to San Diego. 

Barbara has touched the lives and helped literally hundreds of children with physical disabilities and their parents. She is richly deserving of the American Legion Post 227 Life Changer Award.