Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
8:07 am Saturday, April 24, 2010

Betty Wilson

April 19, 2010

Betty Elizabeth, 86, of Russellville, died Monday, April 19, 2010. She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John C. Wilson; parents, Wade and  Annie Mae Harrison; sons, JC Wilson, and John C. Harold Wilson; two brothers and four sisters.

Funeral services ere held Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at Akins Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jim Lumpkin officiating. Burial was in the Franklin Memory Gardens.

Pallbearers included her grandsons.

Ms. Wilson is survived by daughters-in-law, Winona  Wilson and Jo Neil Wilson; sister, Margie Wilson; grandchildren, Daniel Wilson, Teddy Wilson, Allen Wilson, Charlotte Rowe, Robert King and Joe King, 11 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.

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