Lena B Purvis Wilson

WILSON, LENA B PURVIS Lena B Purvis Wilson, age 95, passed away Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at Harvest Communities, Hondo. Services were held in Hondo on Saturday, June14. She will be brought to Waco for a visitation on Monday, June 16 from 9-10am, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey, 1124 Washington Ave. followed by a graveside ceremony at 10:30 am with Chaplain Curtis Holland officiating and burial in the family plot at Greenwood Cemetery. She was born December 22, 1907, in Comanche County, Texas, to George W. and Maggie Boyd Ewing Purvis. She moved to Waco in 1921 to attend Waco High School graduating in 1925. She married H. Clyde Wilson, Sr., June 24, 1925. She moved to Hondo, Texas, in 1988. Mrs. Wilson was an active member of the Wesley Methodist Church and, later, St. John’s Methodist Church and a member of the Women’s Missionary Society and United Methodist Women, frequently holding offices in these organizations. She joined the First United Methodist Church in Hondo and continued to participate in church activities until moving to a retirement center in 2000. Her early professional life was secretary and bookkeeper for flooring companies. After her retirement she established a second profession, dressing dolls and restoring damaged dolls. Her clientele was nationwide. She was president of the Waco Doll Society for several years. Her husband, three brothers, and a grandson preceded her in death. Mrs. Wilson is survived by two sons, Richard Ray Wilson and wife, Dorothy M. of Hondo and H. Clyde Wilson, Jr. and wife, Betty K. of Columbia, Missouri, seven grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren, two sisters, Dorothy Mansell of Waco and Helen Carey of Stephenville, and a brother, George Purvis of Waco. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, Duane Wilson, Glen Wilson, Benjamin Wilson, David Wilson, Anne Wilson Ferrell, James Wilson, and Thomas Wilson. The family invites you to leave a message or memory by signing the “Memorial Guestbook” at www.wilkirsonhatchbailey.com. WILKIRSON-HATCH-BAILEY