Nita P. Wilson

Published 10:08 am Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Funeral services for Nita Pearl Watts Wilson will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at Damascus Baptist Church in Franklin County. She will lie in state at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of service. Burial will follow the service at Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 from 5 until 8 p.m.

Mrs. Wilson, 84, died Monday, July 13, 2015, at Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital in Hazlehurst. She was born in Brookhaven to Pearlie Watts and Eva Smith Watts.

She was a member of Damascus Baptist Church. She was a retired factory worker and a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, David Wilson; her parents; one sister and four brothers.

Survivors are her daughters, Rita Smith and husband, Greg, of McCall Creek, Karen Britt and husband, David “Red” Britt, of Loyd Star, Debra Gladden and husband, Robert, of Hazlehurst; sons, Jimmy Wilson and wife, Beth, of Roxie and Tommy Wilson and wife, Shirley, of Meadville; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mary Alice Strong, Gladys Smith, Francis Hall and Helen Huffman.

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