Ana Irma Wilson, 94, of Long Beach, Miss., passed away Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at Park Bend Health Center in Austin, Texas. She was a native of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico where she lived until she met her husband, Aaron D. Wilson, while working at the Air Force base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Aaron and Ana were married for 56 years.
After graduating from The Modern School of Business, Ana worked as a bookkeeper for the City of Adjuntas, and then as an Administrative Assistant at Reynolds Aluminum in Florence, Ala. She spent most of her adult life expressing her creativity as a homemaker. Ana was a wonderful cook, a beautiful seamstress and had a special talent for crochet and other crafts. Ana is best remembered by her children as the one who would sew their clothes with love and teach them to cook traditional family meals. Her grandchildren recall spending long summers swimming in the pool and making themselves at home in her memory-filled kitchen. She always treated her family with kindness and we will fondly remember her favorite Spanish saying “Si Dios Quiere”
translated as “God Willing”.
Ana is preceded in death by her husband, Aaron D. Wilson; and her granddaughter, Tracy Leigh Haik. She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Ann Alfonso and Lettie Faye VanHaren; her grandchildren, Ana Alfonso Linke, Liza Alfonso Wall, August Decidue Alfonso and Teri Haik Smart; and four great-grandchildren.
The funeral is being held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at Liberty Grove Baptist Church in Loretto, Tenn. with Jeff Putman officiating. Burial will follow in Liberty Grove Cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of one`s personal preference.
Loretto
Memorial Chapel will be handling the arrangments.
