DelMar Pierce Williams will be inducted to the Oneida County Hall of Fame for business, community, and military service.  The annual Hall of Fame banquet will be on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at the Event Center at the Fairgrounds. The catered dinner will begin at 6:00, but people are welcome to come early to visit with the inductees. Also to be inducted are Dotty Thorpe Evanson and William Griff Jenkins. (See earlier editions of The Idaho Enterprise for their bios.) 

DelMar was born in Malad in 1942, the son of Leo D. and Marianne Pierce Williams.  When he was just 11 years old, his mother died, leaving his father to raise Del and his four brothers on the ranch in Cherry Creek.  He remembers driving the tractor around and around the fields before he was big enough to stop it and watching airplanes flying overhead.  He decided at a young age that he wanted to be a pilot.

DelMar graduated from Malad High School in the Class of 1960.  He served as student body president and in several class officer positions. He participated in football, track, and baseball, and was on the famous basketball team that defeated Pocatello High School in the District Tournament in 1960. He also participated in “M” Club, FFA, band, and chorus, including the school operetta. He was voted Best Athlete as a junior and Most Preferred and Best All-Around as a senior.

He attended Brigham Young University on a basketball scholarship and was on the undefeated freshman basketball team. As the junior class president, he spearheaded the class gift to BYU, which was the sign at the entrance to BYU that states “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve.” (The names of the class officers are inscribed on the base.) He was the ASBYU Student Body President over Student Relations, a Hinckley Scholar, and one of 12 “Most Preferred Men” in 1967. He graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health education and earned a master’s degree in recreation education.

His idea to establish an alumni club led to the BYU Cougar Club that now has chapters all over the country. He served as chair of the Cougar Club in southern California and Colorado and will always be a devoted Cougar fan.

He served for two years in ROTC at BYU and, after graduation, went to Williams Air Force Base in Arizona for fighter pilot training in 1969. Although never based in Vietnam, he flew daily missions in and out over Vietnam delivering tanks, bombs, and troops from 1970-1975. Following six years of active duty, he joined the “active” USAF Reserves for another nine years from 1975-1984, flying C-141 Starlifters. He was a pilot for Western Airlines for 12 years and retired from Delta Airlines in 1999.

He then became an independent marketing distributor, business instructor, consultant, and national marketing director, developing marketing teams in the United States and 70 other countries.  He has been featured in several business magazines, including Success from Home, Home Business Connections, and Network Marketing Business Journal. He has trained large groups of people (200-10,000 at a time) in 30 countries, and his videos on training have been featured on television and radio. He enjoys teaching leadership principles, including “Laws of Success” and “Science of Personal Achievement.”  He often says that “if you can dream it and believe it, you can achieve it.”

Del and three other successful network marketers designed a compensation plan solution to the faulty model most companies use. They developed a patented system to solve the “customer acquisition-customer retention” problem that all network marketing companies face. Before retirement, Del was a consultant for new companies that were developing technology, training systems in health and nutrition, anti-aging products, and personal development of individuals with home-based businesses.

DelMar’s service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints includes a mission to the Eastern States where he served as an assistant to the president over the Hill Cumorah Pageant in New York. He served in several bishoprics and as a bishop in San Bernardino, California, as well as a High Counselor in several stakes. In 2008-2009, he and his wife Sylvia were volunteers at the Hill Cumorah Pageant and missionaries at the Peter Whitmer Farm. He and Sylvia served as ecclesiastical leaders over missionaries in the Provo MTC from 2013-2017. They helped train over 2000 missionaries who spoke Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and English.

His other activities include running 27 marathons between 1978 and 2012 and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2001.  He and his wife Sylvia have 4 children (Marianne, Tyson, Jason, and Natalie), 17 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.

Everyone is invited to the Hall of Fame dinner to meet and greet this year’s inductees. The catered dinner is $35 with tickets available from Susan Wittman at (208-709-6888) or at the Malad City Office.  Only a limited number of tickets will be available at the door so please get tickets ahead of the date.