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Chiropractic Legend Dr. Sid Williams Died Thursday Morning December 27, 2012

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Dr. Sid Williams - founder of Life University

Chiropractic Legend Dr. Sid Williams died Thursday morning December 27 due to complications from pneumonia.

Dr. Sid Williams was born in Rome Georgia on March 18 1928. His early life met with much athletic success, landing the young Sid a football scholarship to Georgia Tech. An injury on the field that medical doctors failed to fix led the acclaimed athlete to a chiropractor and served as a catalyst to his monumental career.

After finishing a bachelor's of science degree in industrial management from the Georgia Tech, Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa became his next stop with college sweetheart and new bride Nell Williams. Dr. Sid Williams and Dr. Nell Williams graduated from chiropractic college in 1956, with diplomas in hand they returned to Austell Georgia to open a chiropractic practice. Their success turned into 19 chiropractic clinics covering the southeastern United States.

1964 marked Dr. Sid Williams assent to stardom in the Chiropractic profession with the start of the Dynamic Essentials. Dynamic Essentials or DE as it later became known, offered chiropractic motivational seminars that drew DCs from around the country and Canada. Chiropractors, staff and their families alike listened to the principled lectures of chiropractic and learning how to spread the word of a growing profession.

The success of DE and the related chiropractic business aided Dr. Sid and Nell Williams in creating the Life Foundation in 1965. Originally structured as a nonprofit chiropractic organization dedicated to the purpose of service, education and research.  Early projects included a newspaper with chiropractic patient success stories distributed by chiropractors to their patients. Having sites on educating the world about chiropractic The Life Foundation created a public service announcement featuring Robert Goulet, published brochures, and built the a mobile chiropractic clinic that toured the country called the Health Mobile.

From the success and visibility of their other projects Dr. Sid Williams along with his wife Dr. Nell Williams founded Life Chiropractic College in 1974. The first class of twenty-two students taught by 3 faculty members started in 1975 in rented trailers in Marietta Georgia. Over the next 20 years under his leadership Life Chiropractic College became Life University and grew into the largest chiropractic college with an expansive 100 acre campus and more than 3,500 students at its peak.

After years of empowering the profession Dr. Sid Williams was elected the president of the International Chiropractic Association (ICA) in 1982 and that same year reached an agreement with the struggling Pacific States Chiropractic College to establish Life West in California. 

Dr. Sid Williams retired from Life University in 2003 continuing to his spread his vision of Chiropractic until his death at the age of 84.

Visitation is set for from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, at Mayes Ward-Dobbins, located at 3940 Macland Road in Powder Springs Georgia.

The family request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to The B. J. Palmer Historic Home Foundation.

"Chiropractic should be universally utilized as a major tool for disease prevention, extending longevity, improving the health of children, of working adults, of athletes, and of aging people alike." Chiropractor Dr. Sid Williams

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What a wonderful gift Dr.Sid was to our profession and to the world. D.E was the 'blast off' for thousands of practices. Like the pebble thrown into the still waters his vision grew and grew. Giving...loving..and sharing, out of abundance, from an unlimited source. BJ said .."many a man has the eye sight of a hawk and the vision of a clam." Dr. Williams clearly, was a man of vision. I'm thankful to have been touched by his life.
by: Kirk Steketee,D.C.,CCEP,LCP,FPAC
dr. sid is the main reason my chiropractic succeded.........................god bless him and his family
by: njc dc
Dr. Sid will be truly missed. For many of us we would not have became successful chiropractors if it were no't for him, and successful in other aspects of our lives. It was a honor and a privilege to have known such a wonderful man, as not only the Founder and President of the largest chiropractic school in the world, but as a mentor, and most of all as a personal friend. His work ethics, compassion, dedication and perserverance will be unsurpassed. I think it was truly amazing that doctors flew in from China for his memorial service; he touched so many lives throughout the world, and we are truly grateful. My thoughts are with Dr. Nell, Dr. Kim, Dr John Sidney, Austin, Sheldon and the rest of the family, and Dr. DD and Beth Humber. You did do it "your way" Doc, and will never be replaced!
by: Lori Ugolik
I agree with Dr. Stanton. The continued interference by the "straights" is not moving the profession forward. I am sorry for his family's loss but in my opinion did little for the profession.
by: John H Riggs, DC, FACO
First off. How disrespectful of Peter Stanton in his above comment to insult and degrade a chiropractic icon. You should be ashamed bringing up your petty political bs after this great man passes on. If you ever accomplished a tenth of what Dr Sid did then you would be considered an amazing success. Show some respect and compassion to his family and friends in this time of grief. I remember sitting outside the meeting room at the Atlanta Embassy Suites a few years ago while a DE class was going on. Dr Sid sat down and he and I had a one on one talk that touched my chiropractic soul. I thought what an amazing honor to have this private time with one of the three or four most influential chiropractors in our history. He gave for the sake of giving, served for the sake of serving and loved for the sake of loving.
by: Kent Moore DC
What a checkered career! This man held this profession back for decades, nearly destroyed a school while paying himself and his family members absurd salaries and offered/taught chiropractic as a belief system rather than a science. A used car salesman if there ever was one. A disgrace to the profession. I'll never forget him because of the damage he has done to chiropractic over the years. I still remember his TV commercials where he tried to sell a career in chiropractic. Unforgivable.
by: Peter J. Stanton, DC, MS, DABCO
I first met the great Dr. Sid as a sophmore at WSCC in Portland, Oregon, in 1975, when a group of four of us students scrapped together some money and traveled clear across the US to Georgia to attend our first ever DE Seminar. We we're so starved for philosphy that we felt it was important to attend. I can't begin to express the impact it had on me then and throughout my life. A few years later with early success in my first of four practices my wife and I paid the money to stay at the BJ Palmer summer home in Sarasota FL. At that time we knew that Dr. Sid and Nell were responsible for the renovations of the project and had no expectation of seeing either during our 2-night stay. On our first night we got a knock at the door, opened it and there he was, the huge Dr. Sid, smiling and thanking us for the donation. He said he had to get back to the college, but just wanted to say thank you. He also said Dr. Nell would be over later that night to show us some old BJ videos, which she did do. WOW, Dr Sid Williams, thanking me for donating some minor money for supporting only one of the many HUGE things he did in CHIROPRACTIC. The world has lost a healing GIANT, but as we all should know, Dr. Sid is not gone, he may not be hear with us the way we like, but I guarantee you he's right beside each of us! THANK YOU...DR. SID! Donald L. Hayes, D. C. Owner, Greens First Nutritionals www.greensfirst.com
by: Dr. Donald L. Hayes
Since 1968 Sid and I became friends. He was dedicated to promote and preserve principled chiropractic. He visited my home in Pa. and we went to the Gettysburg battlefield, a place he always wanted to see. His was a love and passion for chiropractic, and he instiled that passion in thousands. He knew all my children and as they went to Life, he always managed to befriend them as well. His was an era, and it has ended, but his memory will live in thousands. Keep the faith, turn the crank, and testify, surly missed.
by: sigafoose
Salute to Dr. Sid for creating such a magical space for chiropractors to flourish and prosper and spread their gifts of health throughout the world. I was there at DE back in the 70s many times with my husband Bill McDonough who rubbed shoulders with the best. Reggie Gold, Sigafoose, Lloyd Latch and many others. My son Trevor Stone graduated from Life Chiropractic College and is currently on the faculty of The New Zealand Chiropractic College. He also has his own practice in Auckland New Zealand. Dr. Sid will never be forgotten and the evening we spent with him and Dr. Nell sharing dinner at the Kahala HIlton Hawaiian show with Danny Keliikini during a visit all those years ago. Mahalo Nui Loa Dr. Sid for the trail of health and love you have bequeathed to thousands of people. Maureen McDonough
by: Maureen McDonough

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