Selma Mable Wilder

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Selma Mable Wilder will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Clark Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with Dr. Rick Hedger officiating. Interment will be in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home of Neosho, Missouri.

Selma was born May 26, 1916 in Livingston, Tennessee and died Firday December 7, 2001 at the home of her daughter in Neosho, Missouri. She had lived 42 years in Borger, Texas and retired in 1978 after working as a cosmetologist and moved to Elk City where she lived unil 1994.

She then moved to Runaway Bay, Texas and to Nehosho, Missouri in 1999.

She had been active in her church and the WMU and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Neosho, Missouri. She married Carl Leonard Wilder on August 24, 1935 and he preceded her in death in 1993.

She is survived by a daughter, Myrna Whitmire-Brown of Neosho, Missouri; two sisters, Laura Bryant and Sally Perrell both of Nashville, Tennessee; six grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Contributsions in memory of Mrs. Wilder may be made to the Trinity Hospice, c/o Clark Funeral Home, P.O. Box 66, Neosho, MO 64850.