Personal Life
Grew up in Waipahu, Hawaii and a graduate of Waipahu High School in the year of 1999. Williams was married on February 3, 2004, to Sarah, and has three children Alana Deborah (08/06/2004) Keilani Skye (11/15/2006) and Tai Makaio (08/10/2009). He is of Hawaiian-Chinese-Portuguese-Spanish-Japanese-Norwegian-African-Filipino-American ancestry.
He was well known for wearing a puka shell necklace at all times on the playing field, in honor of his mother Deborah, who died of breast cancer in 2001 while he was still a minor league pitcher. He stopped wearing it after a bad start in 2005, but resumed wearing it by spring training of 2007.
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