Violet Chilson

Services for Violet Chilson, age 92, of Rusk are scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, May 14 in Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jerry Walles officiating. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home in Rusk.

Mrs. Chilson died May 10, 2007 in a Jacksonville hospital.

She was born April 10, 1915 in Kalkaska, Michigan to the late Elera and Nora Sumner Potter. She was a Rusk resident for 13 years, formerly of Rapid City, Michigan. She was a member of Reklaw Baptist Church and a retired secretary for an insurance company.

She was preceded in death by her husband Roy Chilson; son, Ward Garrison and daughter, Carolyn Will.

She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law, Jo-Ann and Maxwell Huffman of Plano, TX, Janice Borque of Beaumont, TX, Helen and Aaron Higgins of Reklaw, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress