WILSON, Edna L.

WILSON, KETTERING

Posted By: Laurie Wilson Ihry (email)
Date: 4/17/2005 at 00:43:00

Cherokee Times, May 1987

Edna L. Wilson, 102, Denver

Former Cherokee-area resident Edna L. Wilson, 102, Denver, Colo., died Friday at the Park View Manor in Denver.

Services were Monday at the Jones-Barker Funeral Home in Alta. The Rev. J. Donald Johnson of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Cherokee officiated. Burial was in the Oakland Cemetery in Sac City.

Edna Kettering was born June 23, 1884, to Michael and Bell Kettering, south of Lisbon in Cedar County. The family moved to Lake View. She married John Lowell Wilson April 18, 1907, in Carroll. They farmed in Sac County before moving to Sac City in 1920. Mr. Wilson died in May, 1921.

Mrs. Wilson took care of young and old people in the Cherokee and Lake View areas after raising her family. She then moved to Wichita, Kan. in the early 1940s, and in the mid-'40s moved to Denver.

Survivors include on son, Kenneth Wilson of Cherokee; one daughter, Ermal Ferrin of Denver; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.