Ida Elizabeth Wilson's Obituary
Elizabeth Wilson was born at home in rural Somerset Kentucky Nov. 13, 1927. She attended Somerset High School and then went on to Carson Newman College, Cumberland College where she graduated with an elementary teaching degree. She taught elementary school in a one room school in Kentucky and then moved to New Mexico where she taught in the remote town of Magdalena for several years. She then moved to Albuquerque where she continued to teach. She married Richard Wilson June 10, 1961 and subsequently moved to Dallas, Texas with their first child, Melissa. They settled down in Richardson, Texas where they had a second child, Robert “Buddy” Wilson. She continued to teach and returned to college and obtained her Master’s Degree in Special Education from then East Texas State University, now Texas A and M Commerce. She continued to teach and substitute teach until her later years when she retired. She was raised on a farm and had a love and a gift for growing anything turning most of her backyard into a garden and an orchard. She loved reading and writing mystery stories. She was an active member of several reading and mystery writing groups in Richardson. Elizabeth enjoyed crocheting, embroidery, sewing and many types of needlework and made sure to pass that love onto her daughter. She was preceeded in death by her parents, Rev. William Lee Dykes and Vada Fulcher Dykes and four brothers; William Howard Dykes, Rev. Nelson Bradley and Lloyd Samuel Dykes and Forest Dykes. She is survived by one brother Joseph Dykes of Cincinatti, Ohio her children Melissa Wilson Landregan of Grand Prairie, Texas and Robert “Buddy” Wilson of Seattle, Washington and grandchildren, Patricia, Gary, Winter and Willow .
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