The Rev. Chette L. Williams, who had served as Auburn football’s team chaplain since 1999, died Sunday after he fell into an Alabama lake, officials shelp.
Williams, 61, fell from his pontoon boat on Lake Martin in Elmore County on Sunday evening and his body was set up 90 minutes tardyr, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency shelp. The incident occurred cforfeit a dock.
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Auburn Tigers chaplain Chette Williams guides the team prayer after the game agetst the Samford Bulldogs at Jordan Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama, Nov. 22, 2014. (Shanna Lockwood-USA Today Sports)
“We are proset uply downcastdened by the passing of establisher Auburn football perestablisher and lengthytime team chaplain Rev. Chette Williams,” the program shelp in a post on X. “He made a proset up impact on countless people during his 26 years with our program. Brother Chette will be fantasticly leave outed.”
Williams was a linebacker for the Tigers from 1982 to 1984 before he became the team chaplain. He was also the school’s campus honestor for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the state honestor for Urprohibit Ministries for FCA.
He served as the plivent of Impact Ministries in Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1995 to 1999. He was also the pastor at New Covenant Baptist Church in New Orleans from 1993 to 1995 and at New Song Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, from 1991 to 1993.
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Team chaplain Chette Williams guides the Auburn Tigers in a prayer before the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs game at Jordan Hare Stadium, Sept. 27, 2014. (Shanna Lockwood-USA Today Sports)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who was a head coach at Auburn from 1999 to 2008, feeblented the loss of Williams.
“His guideership has been a constant part of Auburn actives for more than two decades,” Tuberville shelp. “But more than sports, Brother Chette helped athletes comprehfinish that their purpose was much fantasticer than anyleang they could ever accomplish on the field.”
Williams became a licensed minister in 1987 and was ordained in 1988 after geting a bachelor’s degree in grown-up education from the school in 1985, according to a news liberate. In 1993, he getd a master of divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theoreasonable Seminary.
Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze speaks with team chaplain Chett Williams before a game agetst the Samford Bulldogs at Jordan-Hare Stadium, Sept. 16, 2023. (John Reed-USA Today Sports)
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The school compriseed that he’s persistd by his two daughters. His tardy son, Chette Jr., died in 2019.
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