WILSON, LeRoy 1941-2000

WILSON, GALLUP, SAMSON, HALL, INGERSOLL, SHELDON, SCHIPPERS, KING

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/7/2010 at 12:25:57

MASON CITY - LeRoy Wilson, 58, of 1712 S. Virginia Ave., died Monday (Jan. 10, 2000) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today at Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N. E., with the Rev. Dennis Ganz officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from noon until time of services today at the funeral home.

LeRoy was born Aug. 27, 1941, in Charles City, the son of Jasper LeRoy and Linnie Mae (Gallup) Wilson. He was united in marriage to Connie Samson on July 24, 1967, in Council Bluffs. They lived in Mason City until moving to Chandler, Ariz., in 1973. They returned to Mason City in March of 1998. LeRoy had worked as a custodian at Mason City High School since returning to the area. He enjoyed watching sports and woodworking.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Connie, of Mason City; his daughter, Constance Hall, of Mesa, Ariz.; his son, Tim Wilson, stationed in Italy with the U.S. Navy; eight grandchildren, Michael, David, Brandy, Nicholas, Alicia, Katie, Nathan and Alyssa; one great-grandson, Alex; four brothers, Chuck Wilson and his wife, Betty, of Nora Springs, Larry Wilson and his wife, Norma, of Jerome, Idaho, Don Wilson and his wife, Mary, of Grain Valley, Mo., and Paul Wilson and his wife, Sharon, of Crescent; two sisters, Marilyn Ingersoll of Mason City and Janice Sheldon of Clear Lake; his father-in-law, Fred Samson, of Mason City; his mother-in-law, Audrey Hart and her husband, Charles, of Swaledale; his brother-in-law, , John Samson and his wife, Jean, of Monroe; two sisters-in-law, Nancy Schippers and her husband, Larry, of Pella, and Phyllis King and her husband, Tom, of Dows; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews and great-great-nieces and nephews.

LeRoy was preceded in death by his parents and a son-in-law, William Hall.

Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapel, (515) 423-2372.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday, January 13, 2000)