Retired Master Sgt. William Morgan Strickland Jr., 79, died Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, in Regency Hospital in Florence. Born Oct. 17, 1930, in Robbins, Tenn., he was a son of the late William Morgan Strickland Sr. and the late Ethel Mae West Strickland. He was of the Methodist faith, a retired Air Force veteran, a Mason and a Shriner, and retired from the mobile home business in Sumter and West Columbia.