'Way ahead of all of us': Mourners remember Tulalip's environmental champion
TULALIP — A soft-spoken leader. A fierce, yet never angry, fighter. A forward-thinking man, ahead of his time.
That’s how friends described Terry Williams at a funeral Saturday that drew hundreds to the Tulalip Gathering Hall to honor the tribes’ climate champion who died in July at 74.
But Father Pat Twohy told the mourners, many wearing bolo ties like Williams often did, “no words would ever be enough” to summarize the Tulalip man’s life.
“It’s easy when you have a great man like this to find some worth,” Twohy said. “But at the same time it’s not so easy because of the love for him and that no words would ever be enough to capture the magic of him, the strength of him, the wisdom of him.”
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