Verla Jean Wilson

GASTONIA-Verla Jean Parks Wilson, 86, of Avon St., died Sun., Oct. 5, 2014, at Courtland Terrace Nursing Center in Gastonia. A native of Gaston County, she was the daughter of the late Lester and Gladys Tuney Parks. She worked at Leon Sneider Department Store for 20 years, and was a member of Bradley Memorial United Methodist Church and Gaston Co. Extension Home Makers for 33 years.

PRECEDED: In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lowery Benson Wilson; brother, James Edward Parks Sr.

SURVIVED: She is survived by her sons, Larry Benson Wilson of Gastonia, Jeffrey Scott Wilson Sr. and wife Julie, Hayward Lamont Wilson and wife Cynthia Ann, all of Bessemer City; sister, Betty Falls and husband James of Kings Mountain; grandchildren, Amanda Marie Patel and husband Mike of Buford, SC, Madison Brooke Wilson, and Jeffrey Scott Wilson Jr., all of Bessemer City; great-grandchildren, Tobias and Tula Patel of Buford, SC; and extended family she loved as her own, Dr. Claude Luvis and wife Sherrine, Dr. Sherryl Luvis and fiancé Clinton Eshelman, Dr. Charmaine Luvis Kennedy and husband Kurt, and their twin daughters, Karina and Kiera Kennedy, and Dilan Luvis.

GRAVESIDE SERVICES: Wednesday, 2p.m., at Mountain Rest Cemetery

VISITATION: The family will receive friends Tuesday, 6-7:30p.m., at Clay-Barnette Funeral Home of Kings Mountain, and other times at the home of her son, Scott Wilson, 403 Windwood Dr., Bessemer City.

FUNERAL HOME: Clay-Barnette Funeral Home of Kings Mountain is serving the family