Malheur County OR Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Alice L.  1978
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Daily Argus Observer, Ontario, Oregon, July 6, 1978
Daily Argus Observer
Ontario, Oregon
July 6, 1978

ALICE L. WILSON
NYSSA-Alice L. Wilson, 92, of Nyssa, died Wednesday at a Nyssa nursing home.  
Services will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. at the Lienkaemper Chapel in Nyssa 
by the Rev. Darwin Secord of the United Methodist Church of Nyssa.  Interment 
will be in the Nyssa Cemetery.
She was born Jan. 7, 1886, at Salem, Neb.  She graduated from Northwestern 
College in Naperville, Ill, with a bachelor’s degree in physiology.  She taught 
science and mathematics at the Lewiston, Ill., High School for three years 
before moving to Nyssa, where she taught at Nyssa High School.  She married 
Ernest Wilson June 14, 1916, at Nyssa.  He died in 1960.  She became a resident 
of the Nyssa Nursing Home in 1966.  
She was elected chairman of the Nyssa School Board in 1934, and served four 
terms as chairman.  She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Nyssa 
and a past matron of Golden Rule Chapter No. 131, Order of Eastern Star.  She 
was well known in the Nyssa area for her rose gardens and watercolor paintings. 
Surviving are two sons, Robert R. and Lloyd A., both of Nyssa; 12 grandchildren 
and 11 great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by a son, Calvin.
Friends may call at the chapel from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. today.
Memorials may be made to the Nyssa Nursing Home.

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