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Obituary for Rodney D. Williams

Rodney David Williams, 78 of West Oak Lane, PA, died Wednesday February 12, 2020. Rodney graduated from John Bartram High School and Lincoln University, and received his Master’s in Social Work from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the first President of Philadelphia Corporation for Aging where he served for 39 years from 1973 - 2012. Rodney received the M. Powell Lawton Quality of Life Award in 2012, Human Rights Award from the City of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, and the Philadelphia Liberty Bell Award from the Mayor’s Commission on Services to the Aging. He also served on the Governor’s Transition Task Force which helped create the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Planning Committee for the Pennsylvania Conference on Aging. He was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 1981, 1995 and 2005, and appointed by Governor Ridge to serve on the Pennsylvania Intra-Governmental Council on Long Term Care. He served on the Pennsylvania Council on Aging as a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Finance Committee and was past-President of the Pennsylvania Association of Area Agency on Aging Directors.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Rodney and Bernice, and survived by his wife of 59 years, Jean (nee Silver); sons: Chris Allen and wife Joslyn, Mark Andrew, Terry Lee and wife Celeste, and Paul Lynn; grandchildren: William and Lauren Angelet, and Sasha Jean and Sebastian Kai; and brother, Dwight John. Visitation at 9:30 am and memorial service at 10:30 am, Friday, February 21st at Ivy Hill Cemetery Chapel, 1201 Easton Road, Phila., PA  19150. Interment immediately following service. Memorial contributions in Rodney’s name can be made to Philadelphia Corporation for Aging https://www.pcacares.org/donate/