The August 17, 1975 edition of the Niagara Gazette shared with its readers the details of “Dr. Kent D. Williams Day” as the Middleport community prepared to say farewell to a beloved resident. After 39 years of “healing bodies and soothing minds”, Dr. Williams and his wife Emily were getting ready to retire to Florida due to health reasons. He was a general practitioner who loved his work and practiced both day and night, at his office or in the patient’s home for $8 per call. Almost every long time Middleport resident has warm and loving memories of this dedicated family doctor. His daughter, Susan Williams Brown, kindly has donated her father’s items back to the Village of Middleport and they can be seen on display at the historian’s office on Main Street. Her quote to me was that she wanted to see “Daddy’s things come back home, to the community he loved.”
