OKLAHOMA CITY: AFTER THE BOMB : Body of Victim Profiled in Times Found in Building

Officials at the bombed federal building reported Tuesday that they had recovered the body of Steve Williams, a Social Security Administration supervisor profiled in the April 21 editions of The Times.

Williams, 42, was a lifelong friend of Warren Vieth, an editor in the Times Washington Bureau. After learning that Williams was inside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at the time of the explosion, Vieth wrote a tribute to Williams that appeared in Column One.

Williams worked in a ground-floor office in one of the most heavily damaged areas of the Murrah building. Rescue officials said his body was found late Monday.

Williams, who lived with his family in a rural home near Cashion, Okla., grew up with Vieth in the nearby town of Kingfisher, where they played in a succession of amateur rock bands. Survivors include his wife, Barbara, 41, and three daughters, Sara, 22, Allysone, 18, and Meryl, 15, all of Cashion.