September 21, 1972
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

ERNIE WILSON DIES AT 60; RITES FRIDAY

Ernie Wilson, 60, 1234 E. Hobson, died at this home Wednesday evening after suffering a heart attack. 

Wilson was born Sept. 28, 1911, in Terre Haute, Ind. coming to Sapulpa when he was one year old. He was a route man for Page Milk Co. 

Survivors are his widow, Edna, of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Norman Kirksey, Tulsa; two step-sons, Eddie Lee, Kiefer and Don Lee, Pennsylvania; four sisters, Mrs. O.L. Rush, Stanton, Tex., Mrs. Agnes Self, Selma, Calif., Mrs. D.L. Fosburg, Sapulpa; four brothers, Paul Gene Wilson, Sand Springs, Charles Ray Wilson, Broken Arrow, George Earl Wilson, San Jose, Calif., and L.L. Wilson, Sapulpa, and 4 grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Friday in the Smith Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. H.C. Adams officiating. Burial will be in Green Hills Memorial Gardens. 

Pallbearers will be Wilson's nephews, Charles Wilson, Ronnie Wilson, Charles Rush, Robert Rush, Larry Wilson and Paul Wilson.

Submitted August 2002 by Kim Holly kimh@cwnet.com