Susan M. Wilson's Obituary
68, died in her home July 23, 2008. She was born October 26, 1939, in University Park, TX, to Robert B. and Mary Jane Oesterle Moody. She attended Highland Park High School where she was a cheerleader for the 1957 Texas State Championship football team. She graduated from Duke University in 1961. She married Gary Wilson and had two sons, Derek Moody Wilson and Christopher Donaldson Wilson. She had lived in the Philippines, Potomac, Maryland, and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she was an officer of the ‘Nine O’Clock Players,’ a community theater group for underprivileged children where she was active in many productions. Following a divorce, she returned to Highland Park in 1990, where she enjoyed supporting charities and entertaining family and friends with her wonderful cooking in her lovely home. She had been a Member of the Dallas Country Club, participating in their exercise class group. She was a long time officer of TAO Arts where she organized an annual Art Show at the Irving Civic Center. Susan was passionate about crossword puzzles and enjoyed sci-fi movies, reading, collecting and studying Chinese art, and, most of all, playing with her grandchildren. Surviving are her sons, Derek Moody Wilson and wife, Christen, of Highland Park; Christopher Donaldson (C.D.) Wilson and wife Ginger, of Weston, CT; four grandchildren, Trinity Lewis and Truman Wilson, of Highland Park, and Christopher Derek Wilson and Lily Maddalyn Wilson, of Weston, CT; sister Mary Jane Moody Leader and husband, Charles, R. Jr., of Westlake, OH; nephew Charles R. Leader III, of Delaware, OH; beloved niece Pamela S. Leader, of Dallas; her Aunt Lydia Oesterle Minnett, of Dallas; one great-nephew, Charles R. Leader IV, of Delaware, Ohio; cousin Margaret M. Hooton, of Dallas; cousin John S. Minnett, of Dallas; and cousin John Karl Oesterle, of Muncie, Indiana.
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