Two More Golden Leaves on The Wilson Family Tree

Bill Thompson, Apr 07

Since our Wilson reunion in June 06 we have said goodbye to two more of our dear family.  Aunt Thelma Wilson Barton (87) went to be with the Lord 9/17/06.  She was the youngest daughter of John F. Wilson, granddaughter of  Dixon L. Wilson and mother of Donny "Sonny" Barton and Sue Barton Thomas.  On 1/22/07 Ruth Wilson Thompson (94) made the same journey.  She was the other daughter of John F. Wilson, granddaughter of Dixon L. Wilson and mother of Chad Thornton Thompson (dec 1996), Billy Wilson Thompson, Betty Jo "BJ" Thompson Chamness, and Judy Thompson Hand.  With these departures all of John F. and Hettie Hutchison Wilson's children have made their heavenward exit.  Frank C. Wilson (94) father of Carolyn Wilson Bannon and Margaret Wilson Frame, the only son and oldest of the 3 passed away 10/16/02.   All 3 outlived their spouses by several years. 

Mother Ruth's funeral was held Jan. 25 in a Clinton, MS funeral home within sight of  the home place where our family spent many happy years.  The light went out of her life when Daddy Harold died in 1999 and never came back on until she rejoined him.  The theological details regarding heaven may be somewhat obscure but one thing I know - since it took seeing daddy again to make her joy complete, so must it have been.  

There was a rather unique and unplanned event that occurred on the day of mother's funeral service.  The small Clinton, MS newspaper had been running a series of pictures and articles featuring prominent historical events and residents of the community.  Just hours before the funeral on the front page of the paper there appeared a picture including both mother and daddy among friends of the Order of Eastern Star to which they belonged for 50+ years.  By divine appointment it seems that "someone" ordained that her passing would not go unnoticed in their home community.

Billy Wilson Thompson