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Melba Devoil <I>Creech</I> Wilson

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Melba Devoil Creech Wilson

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23 Aug 1999 (aged 84)
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Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Melba Devoil Wilson of Paoli, IN, died Monday, August 23, 1999, at Dunn Memorial Hospital. Born on March 19, 1915, in High Splint, KY, she was the daughter of Harvey Lee and Omega (Johnston) Creech. She married Elmo Wilson on December 26, 1934, and he died April 5, 1996.

Surviving are one daughter, Judith Elaine Terry of Bedford, IN; two sons, Robert Keith Wilson of Apple Valley, CA, and Kenneth David Wilson of Warsaw, MO; nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers: Elmer, Nelson, Jack, Alonza, Custer, Sylvan, and Winfield Creech; and four sisters: Milie, Maxie, and Ada Marie Creech and Mossie Willis.

She was a homemaker and a retired dairy farm manager. A 1930 graduate of Evarts High School in Evarts, KY, she was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and attended the First Church of God in Bedford.

Services for Melba Wilson will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday, August 27th, at the Chastain Funeral Home with the Revs. Wade Judy and Alan Reed officiating. Burial will follow in Cresthaven Memory Gardens.
Melba Devoil Wilson of Paoli, IN, died Monday, August 23, 1999, at Dunn Memorial Hospital. Born on March 19, 1915, in High Splint, KY, she was the daughter of Harvey Lee and Omega (Johnston) Creech. She married Elmo Wilson on December 26, 1934, and he died April 5, 1996.

Surviving are one daughter, Judith Elaine Terry of Bedford, IN; two sons, Robert Keith Wilson of Apple Valley, CA, and Kenneth David Wilson of Warsaw, MO; nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers: Elmer, Nelson, Jack, Alonza, Custer, Sylvan, and Winfield Creech; and four sisters: Milie, Maxie, and Ada Marie Creech and Mossie Willis.

She was a homemaker and a retired dairy farm manager. A 1930 graduate of Evarts High School in Evarts, KY, she was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and attended the First Church of God in Bedford.

Services for Melba Wilson will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday, August 27th, at the Chastain Funeral Home with the Revs. Wade Judy and Alan Reed officiating. Burial will follow in Cresthaven Memory Gardens.


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