They say there hasn’t been a horn built that Earl Williams can’t play.

  • Earl Williams selected as our Everyday Hero
  • Williams is the Winter Haven's Marching Wolverines Community Band director
  • Being in the band encourages, motivates young girls

For more than 30 years he has been the director and the heart and soul of Winter Haven’s Marching Wolverines Community Band. He even has boxes of pictures and press clippings to prove it.

Williams is a graduate of Florida A&M University, a music major who minored in commercial art. Samples of that artwork can be found all over the state and even on his alma matters license tag.

Part of the band is now under the direction of William’s daughter, Deanna, and daughter-in-law, Emma.

They are the Marching Wolverettes and E and D Dance Troup, who were hard at practice the day Everyday Hero host Bill Murphy stopped by.

“We’re about encouraging these girls. Motivating them and giving them to just do something that they love to do versus other things and being positive like a role model,” Emma Williams said.

Deanna and Emma: in-laws and best friends?

“See that’s how it happened. She was my friend. Then my brother started liking my friend,” Deanna Williams said.

With daughters by his side, Earl Williams’ labor of love goes on.

“As long as I can go and still tick along I plan to keep doing it with the blessing of the Lord, I will do it ‘till I’m gone,” Williams said.