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Clarence Wilson Obituary
Born June 8, 1918, in Newberry County, he was the son of the late George Calhoun and Claudia Long Wilson. Mr. Wilson graduated from Stoney Hill High School and had retired from the U.S. Army at Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC. He was a WW II veteran, having served in France and also in Germany. He was employed at Edisto Farms Dairy in Columbia and retired from W.O. Blackstone Plbg. and Heating Contractors, also of Columbia.
Mr. Wilson was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Little Mountain, SC, where he was a member of the Men’s Sunday School Class and the Happy Mountaineers.
He was a former charter member of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Columbia.
Mr. Wilson is survived by a daughter, Claudia Jean Wilson Geddings of Pendleton, SC; son, Joseph “Joe” Clarence Wilson (Joy) of West Columbia, SC, and son, George David Wilson (Terecia) of Prosperity, SC; seven grandchildren, Amy Geddings Batson-Olive, Bill Geddings, Paul Wilson, Troy Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Patrick Wilson (presently serving in the middle east) and Benjamin Wilson; 2 great-grandchildren, Taylor Batson and Lathen Bryan. He is survived by three sisters, Virginia Wicker and Carolyn Norris of Newberry, SC, and Christine Dennis of Prosperity, SC.
He was predeceased by three siblings, Mack Wilson, Woodrow Wilson and Ruby Wilson Chapman.
Funeral service will be held Sunday, October 18, 2009, at 2 o’clock at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Little Mountain, SC, with burial immediately following in Little Stevens Creek Baptist Church in Edgefield, SC, with full military honors.
The family will receive friends Saturday, October 17, 2009, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home in Newberry, SC.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Hospice House of Laurens County, 1304 Springdale Drive, PO Box 178, Clinton, SC 29325.
www.mcswainevans.com.
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