Family, Hobbies, and Interests

Meet my family

I am so into the Civil War history that I
built my home to look period. (1977)

Gary and daughter, Presley, at a Virginia Beach "Elvis Week", 1994

Presley, senior year of high school, 2013

Presley and Dad back in grade school. Time goes so fast.

Gary and Teresa Easter
2012. We married July 4, 1976, in Gettysburg during the week of the Gettysburg battle reenactment and the Bicentinnenial of our great USA.

Gary and Teresa, December 1, 2013 Colonial Williamsburg, VA

Gary, 1966. To be this young again. My Marine haircut.

Teresa, March, 2014

Son, Gary Williams, Jr. mostly known as Bubba

Bubba's passion is in the Duke of Hazzard

Bubba's General Lee he built.
He restores cars for himself and others.

Fast and Furious, another one of Bubba's restorations, this one for himself, too.

Colonial Williamsburg, VA Dec. 2, 2013. Two horsepower.

Gary and LeeBrook

Cold Harbor School, 1920. School was built across from where the Cold Harbor Traven stood. The school was still standing until the late 1960's. My mother Lena Williams is pictured in the group above.

LeeBrook and Dad

People ask me what is my favorite brass casting. I cast this one of a kind bronze Angel for LeeBrook's gravemarker. I really miss him.

Bellonia Arsenal on the James River, Richmand VA. LeeBrook standing by the cannon and mold.

My Dad's store 1949 C. B. Williams Service Station

"In Loving Memory"

Not a day goes by that I don't think of my son LeeBrook.
We lost our son LeeBrook in 1991.
Cancer at such a young age.
Just nine years old.
He was full of life.
I sure miss him.

United States Marine Corps

1966 Graduation Day at Parris Island, SC for Gary "Once a marine, Always a marine"

Picture taken from my front yard of
an American Eagle

Horses, Dogs and Wolves

Spirit and Buddy, the Jack Russell

Miss Wolf, she actually agreed to join the Williams pack, this was a favorite pet years ago during a short venture of raising wolf-hybrids.

Spirit and Presley

Villian, the only solid black German Shepherd of the many litters I raised and the many I kept. We love Shepherds.

My 70th birthday party. More than 100 friends there.

Presley galloping Sugar, her first and still favorite horse.

Gary and Dixie, my Jack Russell lap dog.

A new Pet - Casper

Presley and Teresa with Cream, American Ranch horse, beautiful buckskin.

Presley with cat and dog, Ashes and puppy Villian.

Gary riding his quarter horse stallion, MAN, in the front yard, Man was a gentle and beautiful friend for 28 years.

Spirit, a "medicine cap" Appaloosa, also a beautiful and gentle stallion.

Elvis

Elvis autographs I have collected from 1956 - 1968

Gary in his Elvis room wearing a jumpsuit made by the suitmaker to Elvis. Notice the belt buckle made by Gary, Hanover Brass.

Gary and baby Presley at Elvis Week, her Tee shirt say's My Name is Presley, a big hit with the fans!

Kang Rhee and me at a Elvis convention in Memphis,TN. Elvis studied tae kwan do and held a eight-degree black belt instructed by Kang Rhee. This picture was taken for a airline advertisement and that is Elvis original Karate suit I am wearing. Kang Rhee liked my daughters name Presley and we shared a sales table at each convention.

Elvis autograph he signed for me in person at the Graceland Gates, 1967 when I was in Marine Corps.

Elvis glasses with silver TCB (Taking Care of Business)

Gary, Teresa and Presley at Elvis Week, Collingwood, Canada

Author Rose Clayton signing books at Elvis Week. She went to high school with him.

Teresa and Mike McGregor at Gary's Elvis Shop in the Williamsburg Pottery Factory, on the shop's Elvis Day event. Mike, Elvis's horse wrangler, came up from Memphis as event guest.

Elvis Week in Memphis, Teresa with Elvis movie star SueAnn Landon at our vendor table

Teresa, Presley and Judy Whitehead, whose father worked with Elvis's dad, Vernon, and got to hang out at Graceland. She has many unpublished pics and autographs

Presley and Dad standing in front of an Elvis jumpsuit disply at his Elvis Shop at the Williamsburg Pottery Factory.

Elvis's background sing, "the girl with the high voice" Kathy Westmoreland, GW, and Arlene Bradley, a friend of Elvis at Elvis Week, Memphis.

Al DVorin, "Bardahl", Gw and Presley at Elvis Week Memphis, Al "Elvis Has Left the Building" and Bardahl was one of Elvis's Memphis Mafia's.

Elvis Gold Belt

Roy Rogers and the Westerns

My Roy Rogers and Western room

Trigger

Gary, Jr. at a Cowboy reenactment weekend He enjoys this hobby along with Duke Boys.

John Hart was the Lone Ranger for one year when Clayton Moore left the show asking for more money.

Roy and Dale signed a picture for me at their Victorville Museum, CA

Roy and Trigger entertaining the crowd of fans.

Dick Vance, aka Smiley Burnette, stopped by to sing a few of the ole cowboy movie songs on his way home to OH from Annual Williamsburg FilmFest

My 45 John Wayne six shooter signed by Johnny Crawford. J.W. shot J.C. in the movie "Eldorado". On T.V. in the 1960's Johnny Crawford was Lucas McCain "The Rifleman" son, Mark McCain.

An autographed numbered poster that I bought at the Victorville Museum

Roy's original holster and pistols that sold for thousands at son Dusty's estate auction. So sad....

Roy and Hoppy

Gary Jr. and Fuzzy St. John at the March, 2015 Williamsburg Film Festival.

Roy and Dale at the 1969 VA State Fair

Jim Lockwood, Legends in Leather made this exact copy of the Roy's holster for Gary, also GW had Roy's stag pistol grips made.

Sunset Carson autograph picture

Mailed Clayton Moore a envelope with $5 and he sent me his autograph.

I have a reproduction of this gun belt made by "Legends in Leather" Jim Lockwood.

Roy Rogers 1967
VA State Fair

Photo of Trigger and Bullet with a new owner, they were sold at auction who travels and you can have your pic taken beside them. Roy would not be smiling about this turn of events

Did you know Roy's real name was Leonard Sly. I got him to sign both names for me.

At the Williamsburg Film Fest 3/10/17. This was the last Film Fest for Williamsburg.

Shark Teeth in the Backyard

Presley in the blue marl looking for shark's teeth, shark pit dug 25 feet deep to uncover the ocean floor millions of years ago.

Several hundred shark teeth found in the pit we had dug in our back property, all sizes including Megladon, and whale vertebrae.

Villian, looking for Presley in the shark pit.