Palestine High School Alumni Association

08 / 17 / 1926  –  02 / 25 / 1954

Mrs. D. R. Wilson, 27, of Mt. Calm, died Thursday at 7:45 p.m. in a Waco hospital following a short illness. The former Miss Doris Nelms, Mrs. Wilson was born in Tennessee Colony August 17, 1926, the daughter of H. M. Nelms and Susie Belle Via Nelms. She was a 1943 graduate of Palestine High School.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Tennessee Colony Church with Rev. Walter R. Ward officiating. Burial will be in Tennessee Colony Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be G. W. Hudson, Fagan Hudson, Clifford Gore, Harold Hudson, Joe Carroll and James Bryan.

Survivors are her husband, D. R. Wilson; two sons, Dee Ray and Rickey Wilson, all of Mt. Calm; parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Nelms, of Tennessee Colony; one brother, T. W. Nelms, Palestine; one sister, Mrs. L. W. Neal of Tennessee Colony, and grandmother, Mrs. J. D. Via of Montalba.

The body will be at Hassell and Foster until funeral time.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 02-26-1954