Oct. 18, 1989 – Dec. 20, 2011

NATCHEZ — Graveside memorial services for Michael James Wilson, 22, of Natchez, who died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Natchez, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Russell Wagoner officiating.

Burial will follow under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Michael was born Oct. 18, 1989, in Natchez, the son of Dana Scott Wilson and Rosanna Jean Cotten Wilson.

He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Darrell and Dovie Wilson and one uncle, Mike Wilson.

Deeply loved and dearly missed by all whose lives he touched, his survivors include his maternal grandparents, Jim and Rose Cotten; his mother, Jeanie Campbell; his father and his wife, Beverly; three siblings, Danielle Perry and husband, Thomas, Jessica McCalip, all of Natchez, and Raymond Young and wife, Genevieve of Arizona; three nephews, Brendan Perry, Logan Perry and Abraham Young; aunts and uncles, Dixie Smitherman and husband, Mark, Jimmy Cotten, David Wilson and wife, Beverly, Virginia Wilson and Gary Wilson; cousins, Tamara Searcy and her son, Kade, of Baton Rouge, Davy Wilson and wife, Leigh Anne, and their sons, Garrett and Peyton, Colby Wilson, Scott Wilson and his son, Denley, Anna Loughridge and husband, Duncan, and their daughter, Linden of Mandeville, Sarah Smitherman, Caroline Smitherman, James Cotten, Michelle Wilson of Oklahoma and his close companion, Nikki Peschlow.