Wilson, Evelyn E. 1915-1992

WILSON, BARTLOW, DOTSON, NEELEY, EDWARDS

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 12/1/2007 at 16:29:28

Evelyn E. Wilson

MONROE - Evelyn E. Edwards Wilson, 76, a longtime resident of Monroe, died Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Griffin Nursing Center in Knoxville.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Monroe United Methodist Church.

The Rev. Karen Merrill, pastor of the church, will conduct services.

Burial will be in Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.

Friends may call at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Monroe after noon Tuesday.

Memorials to the Monroe Ambulance Fund or the Central Iowa Hospice will be accepted.

Survivors are two daughters, Phyllis (Mrs. John Elmer) Bartlow of Unionville, Mo., and Margie (Mrs. Ronald) Dotson of Royse City, Texas; a sister, Hilda Neeley of Prairie City; two brothers, Lawrence Edwards of Beaverton, Ore., and Wayne Edwards of Tigard, Ore.

Also surviving are three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two foster grandchildren; six foster great-grandchildren; and a foster great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Clyde, two brothers and a sister.

Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Monroe United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Homebuilders Sunday School Class and the Women's Relief Corps.

A restaurant worker, she had been employed by Duncan's Cafe in Monroe for more than 30 years.

The daughter of Lytle and Allie Botsford Edwards, she was born Dec. 29, 1915 in Bemidji, Minn.

She received her high school certificate from the American School of Correspondence in Chicago, Ill., in 1962

She was married to Clyde Wilson June 2, 1934 in Newton. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, November 1992