THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, May 16, 1995 TAG: 9505160248
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B10 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: DARNESTOWN, MD. LENGTH: Short : 50 lines
James Wright Williamson III, 61, a clinical social worker and scientific review administrator who had worked at the National Institute of Mental Health for 15 years, died May 8 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Gaithersburg, Md.
A resident of Darnestown, he had lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1970.
He had also been a legislative fellow with the staff of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
He was a native of Chicago and a graduate of Elon College in North Carolina. He received a master's degree in theology from the Andover Newton Theological School and a master's degree in clinical social work from Boston College.
He was pastor of Union Church of Springfield from 1960 to 1963, and led congregations in Worcester and Nashua, N.H.
Earlier in his second career, he was director of social work services at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, associate area director for the Massachusetts mental health department and administrator of the Potomac Foundation for Mental Health in Bethesda.
He also was in private practice for 22 years.
He was chairman of the Greater Washington Social Work Peer Review Committee, executive area director of the National Federation of Societies for Clinical Social Work, a founder of the National Directory of Health Care Providers in Clinical Social Work and the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work, and a member of the Maryland State Board for Social Work Examiners.
He leaves his second wife, Barbara Williamson of Darnestown; three children from his first marriage, James Wright Williamson IV of Whately, Belinda Pioggia of Longmeadow and Beth Moriarty of Springfield; a daughter from his second marriage, Jenny Williamson of Darnestown; and four grandchildren.
The funeral was held at the Bethesda Jewish Congregation/Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, with burial at Parklawn Cemetery in Rockville.
Memorial gifts may go to Christ Episcopal School Library Fund, 109 S. Washington St., Rockville, Md., 20850, the Bethesda Jewish Congregation, or any heart research fund.
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