Longview Morning Journal
January 14, 1988

John Henry Wilson
Marshall

Services for John Henry Wilson Sr, 86, of Marshall will be 10 
a m Saturday at Sullivan Funeral Home with the Rev Steve E 
Boling, Homer Shearer and Chuck Hollingsworth officiating.

Burial will be in Center Cemetery in Harleton.

Mr Wilson died Wednesday morning in a Marshall hospital following 
a lengthy illness.

He was born in Harleton on January 20, 1901, and was a retired 
self-employed painter. He had worked for the T and P Railroad and 
Missouri and Pacific Railroad before becoming self employed. Mr 
Wilson attended Harleton public schools and was a member of the 
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades and the 
First Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include his wife, Edna Carpenter; sons, John Henry Jr 
of Marshall, Virgil Frank of Charlotte, NC and Arless of Tyler; 
daughter, Mrs Odell Ebeling of Armore Okla; sisters, Fannie 
Sisco of Longview, Ann Mozelle of Phoenix, Ariz and Irene Davis 
and Helen Brinkley, both of Weatherford; brother Eugene of Alto 
Loma; 11 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.