Ruth Audrey Sandel Wilson

Published 12:00 am Friday, January 17, 2014

Feb. 23, 1928 -Jan. 14, 2014

ALEXANDER, ARK. — Services for Ruth Audrey Sandel Wilson, 85, of Bryant, Ark., who died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Griffin Leggett Forest Hills Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will follow in Pine Crest Memorial Park in the Wilson Family Plot under the direction of Griffin Leggett Forest Hills Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Wilson was born Feb. 23, 1928, the daughter of Henry Adrian and Ruth Doherty Sandel.

She was a graduate of St. Joseph High School in Natchez.

She was known throughout her life as “Lulu”. She was totally dedicated to her family and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and a friend to all who knew her.

She loved fishing, gardening, traveling, crafts, playing bridge, bingo and playing the slots.

Mrs. Wilson was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, William Lloyd Sandel and Henry Adrian “Sonny” Sandel; one sister, Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Sandel Smith; her eldest son, Joseph Douglas Wilson Jr.; and daughter-in-law, Laurie Varice Jones Wilson.

Survivors include her husband, Joseph Douglas Wilson; four children, Walter Richard Wilson and wife, Toni, of Tyler, Texas, Deborah Ann Wilson McNiell, Marie Elizabeth Wilson, of Tiki Island, Texas, William Lloyd Wilson, of Bryant, Texas; five grandchildren, Mary Christine Hining, of Benton, Ark., Ira Jonathan Wood and wife, Erica, of Katy, Texas, Walter Kyle Wilson, Kelsey Kathleen Wilson, of Tyler, Texas and William Joseph Arteak Wilson, of Jonesboro, Ark.; one great-grandchild, Connor Andrew Smith; two brothers, Lewie Sandel and Walter Sandel and wife, Peggy; one sister, Freda Sandel Stallone and husband, Meno; two sisters-in-law, Frances Wilson Boyd and Mary Wilson Dick and husband, Keller; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Online condolences may be sent to griffinleggettforesthills.com.