 In 2006, he established the Manning H. Williams Scholarship Endowment, a permanently endowed fund at Washington and Lee University in honor of his brother.Williams died of congestive heart failure at the age of 94 on November 17, 2011, at the North Hill retirement community in Needham.His wife of 65 years, Betty, and his two children, Holland and Andrea, were at his side at the time of his death.