Cover for Betty Jane Wilson's Obituary

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Betty Jane

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Wilson

Apr 10, 1924 — Oct 24, 2013

Obituary

Memorial services for Betty Jane Wilson 89, Lawton, will be at 11:00 am Saturday November 16, 2013, at Centenary United Methodist Church, Lawton, Ok. with Rev. Phil Jones officiating. Mrs. Wilson died Thursday October 24, 2013 at Ten Oaks, which has been her home for the past 22 years. She was born April 10, 1924, in Baltimore Maryland, the first-born daughter of Herbert Sessions and Lois Valentine Lyons Wells. She was reared for the most part in Nashville, Tennessee and in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City is where she met and became engaged to medical student Douglas Earl Wilson. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma, School of Social work in 1944. She married Douglas Earl Wilson at St. Luke's Methodist Church in Oklahoma City on August 12, 1944, where the couple made their home. She continued to work to help support her husband thru medical school until moving to Lawton in 1955 to establish their permanent home and Orthopedic Practice for her husband, Dr. Douglas Earl Wilson. She then began her long career as a homemaker. She raised five children and was mom to most of the children within a 10 mile radius. She was a member of P.E.O. local Chapter l and Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra. Survivors include two sons Robert E. Wilson and wife Myra of Chesterfield, Mo., James D Wilson of Spring Hill, KS. Twin daughter's Ann Wilson Thompson of Lawton and Barbara J & Ken Caldwell of Midwest City, Ok, and a daughter in-law Kim Goss Wilson of Yukon. She had 9 grandchildren, Dayna Johnson of Boyd MN, Amanda Main of Moore, Bronson and Michelle Caldwell both of Midwest city, Alice and Laura Wilson both of Kansas, Justin Wilson, Ashton Wilson and Cody Wilson all of Yukon Ok, she had 13 great-grandchildren, Tanner, Kirsten, Presley, Trevon, Tarah, Eelynn, Braden, Andrew, Cashius, Jayden, Kaia, Tucker, and Harper. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son John Wilson, both parents, her sister Memorial contributions can be made in her honor to Faith Hospice of Lawton, and the American Cancer Society Lawton chapter.

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