The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK

September 28, 2009

Birthdays for 9/29/09


Wilson, 103

Edna Wilson will celebrate her 103rd birthday with family Sunday. Cards may be sent to Greenbrier Nursing Home, 1119 E. Garriott, Enid, OK 73701.

She was born Oct. 2, 1906, on her grandfather’s homestead, north of Medford, the daughter of Oliver and Emma Dupps Lynn.

She is a 1925 graduate of Medford High School and married Orville H. Wilson that same year.

They made their home in Weatherford before moving to Pond Creek in 1929, where they worked in the funeral industry.

She played the organ at United Methodist Church and taught art and oil painting at Sunshine Center in Pond Creek.

Her children are Maxine Peier, Wichita, Kan.; Keith Wilson, Magnolia, Texas; the late Gene Wilson; and the late Charles Wilson. She has eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and four great-great-great-grandchildren.