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© Lawton Constitution Lawton, Oklahoma Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Jessie Marie Zorger Wilson Funeral for Jessie Marie Zorger Wilson, 91, Lawton, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home Chapel with Harley Davidson, minister, Western Hills Church of Christ, officiating. Mrs. Wilson died Saturday, June 20, 2009, in a local care center. Burial will be in Flower Mound Cemetery. She was born Dec. 16, 1917, to Clarence Elvin and Rachel Ray Zorger, Lawton pioneers who came to the land opening with their parents in 1901. She graduated from Lawton High School and graduated cum laude with a Master's Degree in Education and Music from Southwestern State University. She began studying music at St. Mary's Academy and played in orchestras at the academy and at Lawton High School. She married George Stanley Wilson July 13, 1935, in Waurika. She was a longtime Lawton resident and was involved in church. She and her husband helped found Northwest Church of Christ and were charter members of Western Hills Church of Christ. He died Sept. 8, 1991. During World War II she was one of a few violinists in the Lawton Concert Orchestra which later became the Lawton Philharmonic. She taught music in her home for 13 years before entering the classroom to teach third and fifth graders at Roosevelt and Hoover elementary schools for the next 20 years. She retired in 1978. She and her music students gave numerous recitals. During World War II, she worked in her father's furniture store at 527 E and taught plaster art painting, which she continued much of her life. She was a life member of Oklahoma Retired Educators and Comanche County Retired Educators. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Clarence Stephen and Linda A. E. Wilson, Fletcher; five grandchildren and their spouses: Christopher and Kathryn Wilson, Oklahoma City; Kimberly Wilson, Washington, D.C.; Mary Ellen and Todd Wallace, Lawton; Stan and Julie Wilson, Oklahoma City; and Paul and Chantell Wilson, Tulsa; four great-grandchildren: Denver; and Carson Wilson, John Todd Wallace and Isabelle Paige Wilson; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, George Stanley Wilson Jr.; a brother, Blunt Zorger; and two sisters: Olga Hoffman and Alberteen Lewis. Memorial contributions may be made to Western Hills Church of Christ, 1108 NW 53rd St., Lawton, or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 424 E 92nd St., New York, NY 10128. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. |
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