Wm Walter Wilson 74, Pioneer Rancher, Rites Held Monday
Friends from throughout the Hill Country Monday paid last tribute to William Walter Wilson, 74, pioneer rancher of the Hunt area who died Sunday in the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, in funeral rites held from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home with Bro. Odell E. Setliff, officiating, and assisted by Dr. P. B. Hill. Internment was in the Hunt Cemetery under direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Mr. Wilson had been in declining health for the past six weeks.
Pallbearers were Addison Cantwell, Pete Allison, Felix Woodard, O. O. West, Matt Skeen and Bob Burgess.
Honorary pallbearers included Tom Moore, Jim Priour, Frank Etheridge, A. J. Lochte and Frank Cullum.
Mr. Wilson was born September 2, 1880, in Comfort, to parents who pioneered the wild and rugged Hill Country. In 1908 he moved to Hunt where he had been a prominent and prosperous rancher throughout the intervening years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Beulah Wilson of Hunt, one daughter, Mrs. R. H. Carson of Schreiner Institute, and one son, Elmo Wilson of Hunt.
Kerrville Daily Times
18 Jan 1955
Friends from throughout the Hill Country Monday paid last tribute to William Walter Wilson, 74, pioneer rancher of the Hunt area who died Sunday in the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, in funeral rites held from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home with Bro. Odell E. Setliff, officiating, and assisted by Dr. P. B. Hill. Internment was in the Hunt Cemetery under direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Mr. Wilson had been in declining health for the past six weeks.
Pallbearers were Addison Cantwell, Pete Allison, Felix Woodard, O. O. West, Matt Skeen and Bob Burgess.
Honorary pallbearers included Tom Moore, Jim Priour, Frank Etheridge, A. J. Lochte and Frank Cullum.
Mr. Wilson was born September 2, 1880, in Comfort, to parents who pioneered the wild and rugged Hill Country. In 1908 he moved to Hunt where he had been a prominent and prosperous rancher throughout the intervening years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Beulah Wilson of Hunt, one daughter, Mrs. R. H. Carson of Schreiner Institute, and one son, Elmo Wilson of Hunt.
Kerrville Daily Times
18 Jan 1955
Wm Walter Wilson 74, Pioneer Rancher, Rites Held Monday
Friends from throughout the Hill Country Monday paid last tribute to William Walter Wilson, 74, pioneer rancher of the Hunt area who died Sunday in the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, in funeral rites held from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home with Bro. Odell E. Setliff, officiating, and assisted by Dr. P. B. Hill. Internment was in the Hunt Cemetery under direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Mr. Wilson had been in declining health for the past six weeks.
Pallbearers were Addison Cantwell, Pete Allison, Felix Woodard, O. O. West, Matt Skeen and Bob Burgess.
Honorary pallbearers included Tom Moore, Jim Priour, Frank Etheridge, A. J. Lochte and Frank Cullum.
Mr. Wilson was born September 2, 1880, in Comfort, to parents who pioneered the wild and rugged Hill Country. In 1908 he moved to Hunt where he had been a prominent and prosperous rancher throughout the intervening years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Beulah Wilson of Hunt, one daughter, Mrs. R. H. Carson of Schreiner Institute, and one son, Elmo Wilson of Hunt.
Kerrville Daily Times
18 Jan 1955
Friends from throughout the Hill Country Monday paid last tribute to William Walter Wilson, 74, pioneer rancher of the Hunt area who died Sunday in the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, in funeral rites held from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home with Bro. Odell E. Setliff, officiating, and assisted by Dr. P. B. Hill. Internment was in the Hunt Cemetery under direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Mr. Wilson had been in declining health for the past six weeks.
Pallbearers were Addison Cantwell, Pete Allison, Felix Woodard, O. O. West, Matt Skeen and Bob Burgess.
Honorary pallbearers included Tom Moore, Jim Priour, Frank Etheridge, A. J. Lochte and Frank Cullum.
Mr. Wilson was born September 2, 1880, in Comfort, to parents who pioneered the wild and rugged Hill Country. In 1908 he moved to Hunt where he had been a prominent and prosperous rancher throughout the intervening years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Beulah Wilson of Hunt, one daughter, Mrs. R. H. Carson of Schreiner Institute, and one son, Elmo Wilson of Hunt.
Kerrville Daily Times
18 Jan 1955
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