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Submitted: 1/12/22 • Approved: 1/12/22 • Last Updated: 1/15/22 • R480922-G0-S3
July 23, 1923-January 11, 1947
For 23 years she was here, then God called her home.
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Final rites were held at the Wheeler Baptist church Monday afternoon for Miss Lonnie Gayle Wilson, 23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Wilson of Pampa, who died Saturday in a Dallas Hospital from injuries received in a car crash at Dallas Saturday morning.
Miss Wilson, an employee of ? Airways in Dallas, was on her way to work with two companions when another automobile struck their car, knocking it into the path of a street car.
A 1940 graduate of Wheeler High School, Miss Wilson received further education at North Texas Women's College at Denton, being graduated from that school in ?.
The Wilson family moved to Pampa from Wheeler about three years ago.
She is survived by her parents; two sisters, Capitola Wilson, Pampa, and Mrs. Dixie Lee Clay, Pampa.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A.C. Wood, former pastor and the Rev. E. Douglas Carver, current pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pampa.
Miss was a niece of James R. Austin of Wheeler.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume XIV-Number 5, Thursday, January 16, 1947, Page 1)
Note: The paper was scanned without removing it from the binder, and the ? indicates missing information due to it being hidden in the crease.
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lonnie Gayle Wilson
Death Date: 11 Jan 1947
Death County: Dallas
Certificate: 1328
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Lonnie Gayle Wilson
Birth Date: 23 Jul 1923
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Father: G S Wilson
Mother: Katie
Age at Death: 23
Death Date: 11 Jan 1947
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Contributed on 1/12/22
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