Welch, Brenda Mae Wilson

Funeral services for Brenda Mae Wilson Welch, 60, of Hallsville, 
will be held noon Saturday, December 16, 2006, in the Chapel of 
Rader Funeral Home of Longview, with the Reverend Neal Thornburgh 
officiating. Burial will be in Hallsville Cemetery. She passed 
away Tuesday, December 12, 2006, at a Longview hospital. Brenda was 
born January 24, 1946, in Lake Jackson, Texas, to H.V. and Ruby 
Wilson. She grew up in Marshall and graduated from Marshall High 
School, and then attended nursing school. She was employed as a 
Registered Nurse at Longview Regional Medical Center, and a former 
longtime employee of Good Shepherd Medical Center. She was a member 
of Harmony Baptist Church. Brenda was a devoted and loving wife and 
mother. She was so excited about being "Grannie" to her first 
granddaughter in May of 2007. She was preceded in death by her parents; 
sister, Barbara Wilson; brother and sister-in-law, Dwight and Anne 
Wilson; niece, Donna Dorris; nephew, Dwight Wilson; and great-niece, 
Shelly Ledbetter. Those left to cherish her memory are her husband of 
34 years, Ron Welch of Hallsville; daughter and son-in-law, Melissa and 
James Goulden of Longview; son, Cody Welch of Arlington, Texas; sisters 
and brothers-in-law, Waurene and Lucius Wright of Hallsville, and Janna 
and David Heath of Marshall; and several nieces and nephews. Visitation 
will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday evening, December 15, 2006, at the funeral 
home. A memorial guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 12/15/2006.