LOLA DELOIS WILSON WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD ON NOVEMBER 11, 2018.

FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 PM, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018, AT WATSON & SONS FUNERAL HOME IN CENTER WITH BRO. BOBBY WARR AND BRO. FRED WILCOX OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT MT. HERMAN CEMETERY IN CENTER. VISITATION WILL BE HELD PRIOR TO SERVICE, BEGINNING AT 1:00 PM.

LOLA WAS BORN ON MARCH 9, 1937 TO KATE AND MAC HOUSTON. AS AN ONLY CHILD, YOU CAN ONLY IMAGE HOW SPOILED SHE WAS, BUT LOVED HER LIFE BEING RAISED IN THE AIKEN COMMUNITY. WHILE ATTENDING CENTER HIGH SCHOOL, SHE MET A TALL HANDSOM GUY, AND THE LOVE OF HER LIFE JAMES PAUL. THEY DATED ALL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND EVEN WHILE ATTENDING STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY. IT WAS TRUE LOVE AND THEY MARRIED ON JULY 14, 1956. JAMES PAUL WAS AN ENTERTAINER AND TRAVELED WITH LOLA BY HIS SIDE GIVING CONSTANT SUPPORT. A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER TANA WAS BORN. WITH TANA IN TOW, LOLA CONTINTUED TO TRAVEL AND SUPPORT JAMES PAUL. FOUR YEARS LATER TRACI WAS BORN, LOLA HAD TO START STAYING AT HOME AND HOLDING DOWN THE FORT. DARREN WAS BORN TWO YEARS LATER AND HER FAMILY WAS COMLETE.

LOLA DEDICATED 35 YEARS TO SHELBY SAVING BANK WHERE SHE MET SO MANY PEOPLE AND DEVELOPED LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIPS THAT SHE TREASURED. AFTER THE LOSS OF DARREN IN 1990, LOLA WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ENSURING THAT THE DARREN WILSON GOLF CLASSIC SCHOLARSHIP RAISED AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE TO HELP HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FUTHER THEIR EDUCATION BY AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGHOUT SHELBY COUNTY. SHE WORKED DILIGENTLY AND DEVELOPED THE SILENT AUCTION WHICH WERE GENEROUS DONATIONS GIVEN BY THE COMMUNITY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF DURING THE EVENT. THIS SILENT AUTION WAS ALWAYS A HUGE SUCCESS THANKS TO HER DEDICATED WORK.

LOLA LOVED HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, BUT WAS MOST EXCITED WHEN THE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN STARTING BEING BORN. NOAH, JONAH, SADIE, TAEGAN WERE THE LOVES OF HER LIFE. BABY ERZA WILL BE BORN IN JANUARY, HE NEVER GOT TO MEET NANA, BUT WILL BE TOLD WHAT A WONDERFUL PERSON SHE WAS.

MOTHER, WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND WILL MISS YOU DEARLY.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY
JAMES PAUL WILSON - DEVOTED HUSBAND OF 62 YEARS

DAUGHTERS:
TANA HAIRGROVE AND HUSBAND TOM OF CENTER
TRACI MORRIS AND HUSBAND TOMMY OF CENTER

GRANDCHILDREN:
BRENT GREGSTON AND WIFE JENNIFER OF HUMBLE
TYLER PATTERSON AND WIFE AMANDA OF WHITEHOUSE
BRIANA GOODRUM AND HUSBAND E.J. OF PORTER

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN:
NOAH GREGSTON
JONAH GREGSTON
SADIE PATTERSON
TAEGAN GOODRUM
BABY EZRA GREGSTON DUE JANUARY 2019

BROTHER AND SISTER IN-LAW - CHARLES AND ROSIE WILSON

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
SON - JAMES DARREN WILSON
MOTHER - KATE HOUSTON
FATHER-MAC HOUSTON
FATHER AND MOTHER IN-LAW - BUFORD AND ETHEL WILSON

PALLBEARERS WILL BE TOM HAIRGROVE, JIM SAWYER, RICK CAMPBELL, LYNN HART, STEVEN GAMBLE, GLENN CORDRAY AND WILL LUCAS.

HONORARY PALLBEARERS WILL BE BRENT GREGSTON, TYLER PATTERSON AND E.J. GOODRUM.

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, PLEASE MAKE DONATIONS TO THE DARREN WILSON GOLF CLASSIC SCHOLARSHIP.

THANKS TO FOCUSED CARE OF CENTER AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO SHARON WATTS AND RICKY CARTWRIGHT FOR THE CARE THEY PROVIDED.