Wilson, Imo Dell 1916-2007

WILSON, GARRETT, MCCASLEN, LARSEN, NEIGHBORS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/1/2011 at 14:08:50

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; Feb. 22, 2007

IMO DELL WILSON

Imo Dell Wilson, 90, of Grinnell died Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, at St. Francis Manor.

A private family service will be held Saturday, Feb. 24, at Smith Funeral Home with Dave Van Dalen of Newton officiating. Pallbearers will be Sandy Faust, Phil, Greg and Trenton Wilson, Jana Cooper, Laura Peters and Dawnell Larsen. Honorary bearers will be Jason, Jeff and Anna Faust, Max, Shane, Cooper, Megan, Kayla, Emma Grace and Jack Wilson, Reagan and Madison Cooper, Andy and Mike Peters, Raymond Gruhn and Keith Paulson. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, rural Jasper County. Memorials may be made to Grinnell Regional Hospice or Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association.

The daughter of Arthur and Alice Garrett McCaslen, she was born May 3, 1916, in Rock Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa. She lived in several communities in the area and was a graduate of Kellogg High School. She was married on Oct. 7, 1934, in Grinnell to James Paul Wilson. The couple farmed near Newton and Kellogg before settling on a farm east of Rock Creek Lake. They retired to Grinnell in 1970 and moved to Seeland Park in 2000.

She was a former member of Mount Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church.

She is survived by three children, Leon Wilson of Grinnell, Clair Wilson of Newton and Kathryn Larsen of Grinnell; seven grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 2001; one sister, Elsie Neighbors and one granddaughter, Valerie Terry.