Williams Honored With Cape Cod Woman of the Year Award

CCB MEDIA PHOTO: Ann Williams was honored Monday with the 15th Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year Award at the Olde Colonial Courthouse in Barnstable Village.

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Ann Williams was honored Monday with the 15th Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year Award at the Olde Colonial Courthouse in Barnstable Village.

BARNSTABLE – This year’s Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year was honored Monday night at the Olde Colonial Courthouse in Barnstable Village.

Osterville resident Ann Williams was selected as this year’s winner for her involvement with the Rotary where she became the President of the Osterville branch and later a District Governor for the area that includes the South Shore, Cape and Islands, Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year award, which was established in 2002, annually recognizes a woman on the Cape who exemplifies leadership in the community and has made significant contributions to the arts, education, business, community involvement and embraces the ideals of patriotism.

Williams said getting involved is something everyone can do.

“Each of us can make a difference in our village, on the Cape, across America or abroad to be involved and to do good in the world,” she said.

Williams also urged everyone to emulate Mercy Otis Warren.

“Our community needs you,” she said. “Our communities, whichever one you chose, needs each and every one of us which is why we continue doing the work that we do.”

The selection committee unanimously selected the 86-year-old Williams who currently serves on the boards of the Cape Cod Community College Foundation and the YMCA Cape Cod, along with serving on Contributions Committee of the Marion Jordan Trust.

Williams also works with special needs students once a week, is active in the Osterville Business and Professional Association.

Williams, her husband and their seven children moved to Barnstable full-time in 1967. She joined the town’s finance committee and became the town’s representative on the organizing committee of the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich. She joined the board of Cape Cod Tech a year after it opened and still serves on its executive committee.

Trained as a biologist, she became the first Director of Community Affairs at Cape Cod Hospital.

Williams was also a liaison to the Cape Cod Hospital’s Woman’s Auxiliary, a group of independent branches which offer financial support to hospital capital projects.

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