Value: N/A
# Awarded: 1
Application Due Date: March 15, 2024
Recipients Notified Date: May
Field(s) of Study:
Occupation/Vocation
Criteria
- Available to graduates of Inglemoor High School.
- Financial need is a consideration.
- Intends to study in the field of Automotive Technology or any Trade.
- Candidates will apply through the Foundation’s onLine software.
- Letters of recommendation are accepted, but not required.
- Candidates may have had to overcome a life situation or barriers as identified by their counselors. Grant to be for someone who may have struggled to graduate.
Requirements
- Members of the Williams family and their designee will review applications and make selection.
Current Recipient(s)
About the Sponsor
Family and friends of Erik Ross Williams.
The Williams Family would like to honor and remember our son, Erik, with a Trades Scholarship each year for an Inglemoor High School graduate. Our hope is for this scholarship to be a low- barrier
award for a student who has been identified as an overcomer in their life journey. We all have things to overcome in life whether it be educational challenges, family or personal struggles, depression, or
addiction, everyone has strengths that can shine when given the opportunity.
Erik attended Moorlands Elementary, Northshore Junior High, and Inglemoor High School graduating with the class of 2010. His favorite classes were History and Weight Training. He excelled in
athletics and academics early in life, but he eventually chose a different path which allowed him to be active and free and enrolled in Northshore School District’s Firefighting Program during his junior year.
After graduation, Erik began working on cars, enjoyed racing at the Speedway with friends, and earned his motorcycle endorsement. After attending the Honda Automotive program at Shoreline Community
College, Erik worked for a few years at Honda of Kirkland before branching out and starting his own automotive repair business.
Erik loved living life to the fullest, training in mixed martial arts, skateboarding, and snowboarding. He was a talented guitar player who enjoyed playing for family and friends and used strumming as a way to keep his spirits lifted. Erik enjoyed engaging others in philosophical discussions and genuinely wanted everyone to have a happy life, free from judgment and hypocrisy. Life had its ups
and downs for Erik, as he humbly accepted.
Sadly, after three years in recovery, during one of life’s down times, Erik’s life here on earth ended too soon in 2022. Erik was known as a friendly, loving and giving person who wanted everyone to live an authentic life and to be loved for who they are.