Homer Williams' monuments are all around
We drive on them time after time
With names like The Belt Highway
Route 36 and Interstate 29

For forty-four years he built the roads
That we take for granted now
He brought his part of Missouri up out of the mud
To join towns like Tarkio, St. Joe and Gower

The work wasn't his alone of course
Building roads takes an army of men
And each man on the crew gave a bit of himself
In those days of hot sun and wind

Homer Williams' monuments are all around
We drive on them time after time
They're lines on the earth; tracks on the land
With names like Route 71 and Highway 169

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Lorin Homer Williams was a Construction Engineer for the Missouri State Highway Department from 1922 until 1966. He worked throughout Northwest Missouri in District One of the Highway Department. Born August 17th, 1901 in Albany, MO and died in Gower, Missouri February 9th, 1993. 

His wife, Lucretia Helen Lewis Williams, now age 96, lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Their oldest son, Homer Williams Jr., died in July 1999.

Dick Williams
Kansas City Missouri
24 Nov 99
rjw at kcsky dot net