On Perrysburg’s war memorial in Hood Park, the name Elbert Williams Jr. appears among the 18 village men lost in World War II.

To some, it may be just a name faded to history, glanced by those who pass by this monument while strolling the grounds. But there was a life attached to this name and a story, of course, about this young man from Perrysburg who went off to fight WWII.

Williams was born in 1…