mary ellen williams, was a beloved educator, and his father, fred d. williams jr., was a wise and generous business owner. his father owned j.h. williams and sons funeral home, established in 1905, and still in operation today in selma, alabama. the williams family were pioneers in a time when african-american businesses were few or nonexistent. the opening of fred's flower and gift shop was an extension of his family legacy. fred williams spent most of his formative years in selma. he moved with his family to richmond, virginia, in the 1950's, where he graduated from maggie l. walker high school. he then went on to attend the historic fillman college in tuscaloosa. he returned to his hometown of selma and opened his flower shop in 1956. for 45 years, fred williams was married to martha j. williams who passed away on july 15, 2003. their marriage was blessed with three -- with two children, kay francis williams, who is married to orel johnson of alexandria, virginia, and kimberly joyce williams, who is married to john dillon of bloomington, minnesota. h

time that is bankruptcy for almost four hundred billion dollars in financial assistance from the fred william dudley now the new york fed president granted a way for to keep his investments in a i.g.n. jet and general electric at the same time that they've given a bailout funds and the reason that the fed gave for not making this guy sell is holdings is because they did not want to create the appearance of a conflict of interest i mean so it's ok to have a conflict of interest you just don't want to create an appearance of it the fed outsourced all almost all of its operations for these emergency lending programs to private contractors j.p. morgan chase morgan stanley wells fargo the usual suspects these guys all got trillions of dollars in federal loans at near zero interest rates and two thirds of these contracts were no bid contracts morgan stanley got over one hundred billion dollars to help manage the fed bailout of a.i.g. i mean frankly this is complete peak feeding shark attack trough feeding at the taxpayers' expense and it just shows you that the government doesn't have rules the gov