This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILSON, GOLDEN, McCOY, GIBSON, ELO, LAPAGLIA, BROWN, MASTERS, SMART Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1687 Message Board Post: SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD, FEBRUARY 28, 2002 - Lavena Adella Wilson, 89, of DeKalb, MO, mother of Carol Golden of Sidney died February 2002, at her home. A memorial service was held February 24 at the Clark-Sampson Chapel in St. Joseph, MO. Interment was at the Sugar Creek Cemetery. Clark-Sampson Funeral Home was in charge of services. Lavena Adella Wilson was born in Rushville, MO., January 17, 1913. She lived most of her life in DeKalb, MO. She graduated from Benton high school, St. Joseph, MO. She was a member of DeKalb Christian Church. She married Russell Wilson in 1932 and he preceded her in death in 1993. ALso preceding her in death were her parents, Landon and Lena McCoy; two sisters, Hyla Wilson and Esther Gibson; an infant brother and a great-granddaughter, Ashley Wilson. Survivors are a son Roger Wilson of Pleasant Hill, MO; a daughter Carol Golden of Sidney, IA; fife sisters, Ruth Elo of Ottawa, KS, Alice Lapaglia and Shirley Brown of St. Joseph, MO., Betty Masters of Gallatin, MO., Patty Smart of Atchison, KS; nine grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.