Mary Ann (Sandor) Wilson (1919-2010)
WILSON, SANDOR, DAWSON, LONG, SCHONHORST, SHRIENER, ALLEMAN
Posted By: Nevada Journal
Date: 8/29/2010 at 21:35:53
THE NEVADA JOURNAL, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, August 26, 2010.
Mary Ann Wilson, 91, of Nevada passed away Friday, August 20, 2010 at the Story County Long Term Care in Nevada. A private memorial service is planned.
Mary Ann Wilson was born January 30, 1919 at Slovac, near Stuggart, Arkansas, to John and Annie Sandor. She went to the Catholic Church school there thru elementary and “boarded” out and lived with the Methodist minister’s family at Hazen, Arkansas, thru her high school days.
She met Leon Wilson in Stuggart, Arkansas while working at the Sterling Department store, and he was stationed there working with the Corp of Engineers, building the Stuggart Army Airfield. After a six month engagement they were married on July 8, 1943 in Stuggart, Arkansas. They lived in Stuggart and Little Rock, Arkansas; San Diego, California; and Fredonia, Kansas before starting up farming in 1948 near Milford school in rural Nevada.
After Leon became Postmaster of Nevada in 1963, the two moved their family into town where Mary Ann worked at Donnelly’s Marketing for seventeen years. During their retirement, Leona and Mary Ann enjoyed traveling, attending any and all Iowa State athletic events, and caring for their seven young grandchildren.
She is survived by her three children, Mark (Diana) Wilson, Diane (Mike) Dawson, and Steve (Rosemary) Wilson, all of Nevada; her seven grandchildren, Erin and Nicole Wilson, William (Erika) Dawson, Ben (Molly) Long of Des Moines and Tom and Kathryn Wilson; four great-grandchildren, Nick, Maria and Anna Long and Edith Dawson; her youngest brother, Jim (Helen) Sandor of Lodi, California; and many nephews and nieces; Marilyn Wilson of Kelly, Wayne (Jan) Wilson of Ames, Ralph (Ardie) Wilson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ruth (Wes) Schonhorst of Slater, Vera Shriener of Council Bluffs, Carol (Robert) Alleman, of Ankeny, and Jim (Betsy) Wilson of Pasadena, California.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Leon Wilson; three sisters and one brother, Maggie, Theresa, Teenie and Jay Sandor of Stuggart, Arkansas.
Memorial contributions may be made to the family in loving memory of Mary Ann.
The Bacon Funeral Home in Nevada is handling arrangements.
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