Marion Wilson

Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 4, 2007

BILOXI — Services for Marion Ogden Wilson, 86, of D’Iberville, who died Monday, Oct. 1, 2007, at her residence, will be at 11 a.m. today at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes of Biloxi.

Burial will follow at Pine Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery in Jackson County.

Mrs. Wilson was born in Panama, moved to Natchez as a young girl, and had been a resident of the Gulf Coast for the past 64 years. She graduated from Natchez High School and attended Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus. She was an elementary and high school teacher and “Project Head Start” director in D’Iberville. She was an avid gardener and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Biloxi. Her family and friends remember her for her wonderful sense of humor, even during the most trying times, and as a wonderful storyteller who entertained generations of young ones with her famous ”bear story.”

Mrs. Wilson was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Russell H. Wilson; her parents, Henry and Melida Ogden; three sisters and eight brothers.

Survivors include her daughter, Melida Patterson and husband, Bill, of Meridian; sons, Stephen Wilson of Goose Creek, S.C. and Duane Wilson and wife, Cathy, of Diamondhead; eight grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews, including Matilda Stephens, Maria Bowser, Sharon Ogden and Page Ogden, all of Natchez; and sister-in-law, Cindy Stringer of Natchez.