OBIT: Hazel Virginia (Huston) WILSON, 2008, native of Somerset County, PA 

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WILSON, Hazel Virginia

Hazel Virginia Wilson, 79, Upper Yoder Township, died March 20, 2008, at the 
Allegheny Lutheran Home, after suffering from chronic respiratory illness. Born 
Feb. 25, 1929, in Shade Township, the daughter of the late George and Freda 
Pearl (Zimmerman) Huston, she was also preceded in death by an infant daughter, 
Eileen Kay; sister, Evelyn Huston; brothers, Fred Eugen, Harry Paul, and his 
wife, Dorothy Manges; and brother-in-law, James McIntyre. She is survived by her 
loving husband of 53 years, the Rev. Lloyd T. Wilson, whom she married April 25, 
1954, at Graef Lutheran Church, Cairnbrook; daughters, Gail Louise Rush, and 
husband, Robert M., Stephens City, Va.; and Donna Lynn Gruss, New Florence; 
grandchildren, Jody, Sara, John and Kaysee Gruss; brothers, Homer George, 
married to Mary Louise Gromley, Bedford; Thomas Merle, Married to Ella Mae 
Penner, Sebring, Fla.; Philip J., Married to Anna Marie Ferko, Central City; 
sister, Dorothy Mae McIntyre, Indian Lake; and sister-in-law, Elizabeth (Hall) 
Huston, Nazareth. Hazel was a 1946 graduate of Shade High School, then the 
School of Nursing, Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, in 1950. After marrying 
the Rev. Wilson, together they served at five different Lutheran parishes, 
Orrstown (Franklin County), Lavansville-Bakersville, St. John, Watsontown, St. 
Luke, Roaring Spring, and Zion, Meyersdale. After the Rev. Wilson retired, they 
moved to a cottage at the Lutheran Home in Johnstown. She was a worker in many 
family, church and community activities, including a 4-H leader, Sunday school 
teacher, executive board of the former Central Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod, 
board of the Central Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Women; past president And 
membership secretary of the Allegheny Lutheran Home, where she also was the 
first woman to serve on the board. Also active with the auxiliaries of the Nason 
and Meyersdale hospitals and a delegate to the first organizing assembly of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1987, and chaired the transition team 
that organized the Allegheny Synod in 1987. In recent years she volunteered at 
the Lutheran Home and its auxiliary and enjoyed reading, sewing and crocheting, 
making many infant sweater sets and blankets. Hazel also is a member of Trinity 
Lutheran Church, Johnstown, where a service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday. 
Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Picking-Treece-Bennett 
Mortuary, West Hills, 921 Menoher Blvd., Johnstown, and 10 a.m. Monday at the 
church until the service time. The Rev. Brian Arman officiating. Interment 
Grandview Cemetery. Contributions may be directed to Allegheny Lutheran Social 
Ministries, or Trinity Lutheran Church.

Daily American, March 21, 2008