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INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) – John Henry Williams, son of famed Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, wants his body frozen and housed alongside his father’s, his will shows.

The will dictates that his body be “cryonically suspended” by Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., the St. Petersburg Times reported in Saturday editions.

John Henry Williams died of leukemia on March 6.

After his father died July 5, 2002, he had Ted Williams’ body taken to the Arizona cryonics lab to be frozen, in hopes that one day he might be somehow brought back to life.

That set off a battle with his half-sister, Bobby Jo Williams Ferrell, who said her father’s will stated he wanted to be cremated.

John Henry Williams said Ted Williams signed an informal family pact in 2000 in which he, John Henry and John Henry’s sister, Claudia Williams, agreed to have their bodies frozen when they died.

In December 2002, when Bobby Jo Williams Ferrell dropped her objections.

John-Henry Williams’ will, dated Dec. 22, pointedly leaves out Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell. It names Claudia Williams and Albert Cassidy, a trustee in the elder Williams’ probate case, as personal representatives of the estate.

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