Beverly (obit) WILSON

March 22, 1926 - March 30, 2016

Services for Beverly Ringwald Wilson will be held at 2:00 P.M., Sunday, April 3, 2016 at First West Baptist Church in Feazel Chapel, West Monroe, Louisiana. Dr. Mark Fenn, Dr. Woods Watson and Rev. Charles Martindale will be officiating. A private burial will be in Kilpatrick's Serenity Gardens under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, Monroe, LA. Mrs. Wilson was born on March 22, 1926 in Alexandria, Louisiana and passed away at her home in Monroe surrounded by her family on March 30, 2016.

Beverly graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in 1944. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern State College where she was active in various campus activities. Beverly served as president of the Associated Women Students and was listed in Who's Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges in 1948. She served as homecoming queen her senior year. Beverly earned a Masters Degree plus 30 from Northeast Louisiana University.

One of the joys of Beverly's life was teaching. For several years she taught at Logtown School before moving to West Monroe High School where she taught English for twenty years. Always active in musical and educational circles, she was a member of the Musical Coterie, Alpha Delta Kappa, Louisiana Teachers Association, and Ouachita Parish Teachers Association. She was also a Kid's Hope USA mentor. After her retirement in 1980, Beverly helped organize a social group of women known as West Monroe High School Retired Teachers.

Beverly was a longtime involved member of First Baptist Church West Monroe, a sanctuary choir member and Vota Vita class Sunday school teacher for thirty-two years. After her retirement, Beverly enjoyed serving as senior adult secretary and pastoral care associate at First Baptist Church West Monroe for twenty-one years.

Beverly was a devoted and loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend. She is preceded in death by her parents, Cyril Oscar and Helen Hamm Ringwald and a daughter, Jan Wilson Hardy. She is survived by her beloved husband of sixty-six years, Bobby C. Wilson, daughters Lynn Moore and her husband, James of Monroe and Kris Pryor and her husband, Bill of Birmingham, Alabama. She is also survived by five grandchildren, James Moore, III and his wife, Arabella, Beverly Haydel and her husband, Justin, Robert Moore, Caroline Pryor and Victoria Pryor. She is survived by one great grandson, James Walter Moore, IV and great granddaughter, Vada Speed Moore. Left to cherish Beverly's life and memory is her Guardian Angel, Willie Mae Wilson and special friends, Shelley Coats Jones, Susan Spears, and Madeline Owens.

The family wishes to express their gratitude and thanks to Dr. Art Yarbrough and Emily Tucker with Senior Care.

Pallbearers will be James W. Moore, III, Robert Wilson Moore, Dr. Art Yarbrough, Tex Kilpatrick, Alan Williams, and Judge Jim Norris.

Honorary pallbearers are Beverly's dear friends and members of the Vota Vita Sunday school class.

Contributed on 2/16/17 by debbraszymanski
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