Wilson, Mary A.

WILSON, ROSBOROUGH, BOHLING

Posted By: Nancy Wagner (email)
Date: 12/27/2010 at 18:46:13

November 5, 2009 – The Wapello Republican – Accompanied by a photo.
Mary A. Wilson

Mary Anna Wilson, 92, of Muscatine, died Monday October 26, 2009, at Lutheran Homes. Funeral service was at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Burial was in the Island Cemetery. Visitation was from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Reverent Kimberly Bowles and Chaplain Vicki Pedersen officiated the service. Casket bearers were her grandsons, Alan Birkhofer, Tim Birkhofer, Mark Wikel, David Wikel, Greg Wilson, Matt Wilson, Eric Wilson, and John Sewell.

Memorials may be made to the family in care of Janice Birkhofer.

Online condolences for the Wilson family may be left at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.

Mary Anna was born on December 11, 1916, in Louisa County, the daughter of Alfred Brandt and Mildred Beatty Rosborough Bohling. She married Charles H. ‘Buck’ Wilson on April 6, 1938, in Muscatine. He preceded her in death on August 30, 1987.

She was a life member of the Island United Methodist Church, a member of the United Methodist Women, and held several offices in the church organization.

Those left to honor her memory include two sons, Jack W. Wilson and wife, Janet, of the Muscatine Island, and Richard E. Wilson and wife Jackie of Columbus Junction; three daughters, Janice Birkhofer of Moscow, Linda Sewell and her husband Gary of Dubuque, and Jo Ann Wikel and husband Ron of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; one daughter-in-law Teresa Wilson of the Muscatine Island; 17 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Calvin Bohling of Fruitland and john Bohling and wife, Connie, of Muscatine; and two sisters-in-law, Linnie Bohling of Muscatine and Betty Bohling of Fair Oaks, California.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son, Donald, three brothers, James, Robert, and Donald in infancy, three sisters, Ines, Alice, and Frances; and one son-in-law, Lyle Birkhofer.