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Funeral services for Johnnie M. Wilson, 98, of Lexa will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 at the Springlake M.B. Church in the Southland Community with the Rev. Robert P. Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in the Springlake Cemetery in Lexa. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight in the Robert Lee Brown Memorial Chapel.
Wilson was born on Sept. 10, 1910 in Farrell, Miss. She confessed a hope in Christ at age 12 at Lone Oak M.B. Church. She moved her membership to Lexa and served at the First Baptist Church in Lexa until her health failed.
Wilson was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and Spencer Coleman; her husband, Earl Wilson; two sisters, Annie Bell and Willa; two brothers, Ernest and Fred Coleman; and her three daughters, Helen, Willa and Earlene.
To share her legacy of love she leaves a son, Freddie (Ruth) Peterson of Rockford, Ill.; daughters, Lillie Mae Banks of Memphis and Ruthie Talley of Lexa; a devoted son-in-law, William Gladney of Lake View; 23 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces and many friends to cherish her memory.
Brown’s Home for Funerals Inc. will direct services.
Funeral services for Johnnie M. Wilson, 98, of Lexa will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 at the Springlake M.B. Church in the Southland Community with the Rev. Robert P. Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in the Springlake Cemetery in Lexa. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight in the Robert Lee Brown Memorial Chapel.
Wilson was born on Sept. 10, 1910 in Farrell, Miss. She confessed a hope in Christ at age 12 at Lone Oak M.B. Church. She moved her membership to Lexa and served at the First Baptist Church in Lexa until her health failed.
Wilson was preceded in death by her parents, Francis and Spencer Coleman; her husband, Earl Wilson; two sisters, Annie Bell and Willa; two brothers, Ernest and Fred Coleman; and her three daughters, Helen, Willa and Earlene.
To share her legacy of love she leaves a son, Freddie (Ruth) Peterson of Rockford, Ill.; daughters, Lillie Mae Banks of Memphis and Ruthie Talley of Lexa; a devoted son-in-law, William Gladney of Lake View; 23 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren, nephews, nieces and many friends to cherish her memory.
Brown’s Home for Funerals Inc. will direct services.
