Lamar County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Ollie Biard March 22, 1949
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The PARIS News, March 22, 1949
Mrs. W. W. Wilson, Fort Towson, Dies

Mrs. W. W. Wilson, 78, Fort Towson, Okla., a native of Lamar County and former 
principal of Wheelock Academy near Millerton, Okla., died here early Tuesday.  
She had been at the Sanitarium of Paris since last Dec 9, after an arm 
fracture, and death occurred there at 1 o'clock this morning.

The funeral, Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock, will be held here at Lamar 
Avenue Church of Christ by the minister, Perry A. Cotham, and Fry and Gibbs 
Funeral Home will make burial in Evergreen Cemetery.  The body will lie in the 
church an hour before the service. Pallbearers will be Dr. Malcolm Johnson and 
Ted Biard 

here; Dr. Fred Switzer and Richard Biard, Hugo, Okla,;  Rafe Biard, 
Clarksville, and Clarence Wilson, Fort Towson.
	
Mrs. Wilson was the former Miss Ollie Biard, born April 4, 1870 at Biardstown, 
daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Sam Houston Biard, members of the family for which 
the community was named.  She was married in 1906 to Mr. Wilson [William Ward 
Wilson], who died in 1924.
	
She was for a number of years a teacher in Oklahoma and old Indian Territory 
schools, before Oklahoma statehood, and later was engaged as principal of 
Wheelock Academy.
	
She leaves two children. W. W. Wilson [William Ward Wilson, Jr.], Corpus 
Christi, and Mrs. Jane Wilson Leach, Laredo;  three grandchildren;  a sister, 
Mrs. J. L. Gardner [Katherine Gardner] of Alice, and a brother, A. J. Biard 
[Albert Johnson Biard], Houston.

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