Mccreary County KyArchives Obituaries.....Wilson, Burl April 18 1973 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lisa Whitehead lawhitehead36@yahoo.com November 1, 2004, 11:07 pm Tuesday, April 24, 1973, McCreary County Record Burl Wilson, 72, Stearns, died April 18 in Stearns. His death was sudden and unexpected. His wife, Lola Wilson, Survives./ He was born May 10, 1900, in Wayne County, a son of the late Elihu Wilson and Eliza Maxwell Wilson. He lived most of his lifetime in McCreary County and was a retired coal miner. He was a member of the Blue Heron Church./ Surviving besides his wife are five daughters, Josephine Ledbetter of Winston, Oregon, Christine Martin of Roseburg, Oregon, Flora Pelcha of Portland, Oregon, Evelyn Winchester and Bessie Rose, both of Cincinnati; four step-children, Rosa Clark of Lowell, Michigan, Betty Ashcraft of Strunk, Ernest Watters of Alpena, Arkansas, and Sidney Watters of Stearns; two half-brothers, Maynard Wilson of Indiana and Kenny Wilson of hill Top; 17 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren./ Funeral services were held April 21 in the First Hickory Grove Church with the Rev. Carmel Stanley and Rev. Hobart Vaughn officiating./ Burial was in the Stearns Cemetery with Hickman Funeral Home in charge of arrangements./ Pallbearers were Kenneth Duncan, Leroy Pelcha, Curtis Rose, Freeman Martin, Bill Shelley and Gene Stephens./ Honorary pallbearers were Ray Clark, Columbus Wilson, Raymond Wilson, Truby Wilson and Emby Wilson. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/mccreary/obits/w/gob1884wilson.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/