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ROSA WILSON, KINGSTREE

3/13/2013

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Lee Alista Woods Wilson, conducted by the Rev. Fredrick Johnson and the Rev. Otis Prioleau, were held Friday, March 8, 2013, at St. John AME Church of Turbeville. Burial, directed by Henryhand Funeral Home, followed at McGill Cemetery of Greeleyville. Mrs. Wilson died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at McLeod Hospice House of Florence. She was born June 22, 1933, in New Zion, the daughter of the late John Lute and Beaulah Burgess-Woods. Two siblings, Larry Burgess and John Allen Woods, preceded her in death. She attended the public schools of Clarendon County. She was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church of Salters and was a member of the Missionaries of the church, served as President of the kitchen committee, and a member of the senior choir. She was married to the late Jacob Ervin Wilson, Sr. Survivors are: one brother, James McKenzie, Sr. (Gracie) of Kingstree; nine daughters, Lizzie J. Farrow of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Barbara J. Staggers (Kenneth), Shirley L. Ombu (Obatala), Bouletha Harrison, Carrie M. Wilson, Patricia Graham (Larry), Jaretta D. Rodgers, and Sarah L. Wilson, all of Kingstree; and Angel Miller (Theodore) of Raleigh, North Carolina; three sons, Jacob Wilson, Jr. (Wanda), Derry Wilson (Denise) and Randy Wilson, all of Kingstree; two nieces she reared as her own, Francine McClary of Buffalo, New York; and Mrs. Maxcine Hanna (Robert) of Kingstree; a cousin she cherished as a sister, Mrs. Essie Mae Montgomery of Turbeville; 26 grandchildren; and 33 great-grandchildren.

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