WILSON, TOM L. - Wheeler County, Texas | TOM L. WILSON - Texas Gravestone Photos

Tom L. WILSON

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

Tom L.
April 10, 1886-October 23, 1954

At Home

Lela Belle
August 21, 1889-October 12, 1982

At Home

*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary Lela
Lela B. Wilson, 93, died Tuesday in Pampa.

Services were held at 3 p.m. Thursday, October 14, 1982 in the First United Methodist Church of Wheeler. Officiating were Rev. Ernie McGaughey, Pastor, and the Rev. Delbert Priest, pastor of the Assembly of God Church at Pampa. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mrs. Wilson was born in Gainsville, Ga. She moved to Texas in 1901. She married Tom Wilson in 1908 at Henderson. He died in 1954. They moved to Wellington then to Wheeler, where she had lived for 35 years. She was a member of the Christian Center at Wheeler.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Mary Frances Sellers of Alamogordo, N.M., and Mrs. Doris Schroeder of El Paso; a son, Tommy Wilson; five grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Buddy Dickinson, Ab Gunter, Bill Hampton, James Hubble, Loyd Lee, John C. Vise.

Honorary Pallbearers were Carroll Adams, Lloyd Anglin, Boyd Austin, Claudy Brotherton, Lonnie Kenney, Adrian Risner.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 48, Number 46, Thursday, October 21, 1982, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lela Wilson
Death Date: 12 Oct 1982
Death County: Gray
Gender: Female

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Lela Belle Wilson
[Lela Belle Roper]
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1889
Birth Place: Georgia
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Pampa, Gray, Texas
Father: John B Roper
Mother: Sarah Jane Martin
Age at Death: 93
Death Date: 12 Oct 1982
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA

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Record #: 480919

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Submitted: 1/12/22 • Approved: 1/12/22 • Last Updated: 1/15/22 • R480919-G480919-S3

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