Wilma 'Billee' Lorraine Douglass Carlson
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Wilma 'Billee' Lorraine Douglass Carlson
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Posted: 7 Jun 2009 11:22PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Wilma 'Billee' Lorraine Douglass Carlson, 83, of Regency South, 100 Thompson Drive SE, died Sunday, March 2, 2003, at St. Luke's Hospital after emergency surgery.
Services are at St Paul's United Methodist Church. Dr. Robert Burkhart and the Rev. Lloyd Brockmeyer will officiate. Private burial will be in Garden of the Cross at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitations are at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home and Thursday at the church. Memorials may be made to St. Paul's United Methodist Church or to St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary Foundation.
She was born Nov. 6, 1919, in Hampton, the daughter of William F. and Cora Crouch Douglass. She married Milton E. Carlson March 14, 1943, in Muscatine.
She graduated from Hampton High School. She attended Iowa State University for two years and graduated with a bachelor's of science degree from the State University of Iowa in June 1941 and then taught at Muscatine High School, Muscatine.
She moved to Chicago while her husband attended the U.S. Army Signal Corp program, returning to Muscatine in 1944.
She was a member of AAUW. She sang in the Wesley United Methodist Choir and served on the board of trustees.
The family moved to Cedar Rapids in 1949, where she served as a past president of Cedar Rapids College Club, Washington High School PTA, Chapter JT of PEO and United Methodist Church Women. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, serving on the Board of Trustees, Worship and Pastoral Relations committees and was a 50-year member of the Family Fellowship class. She was a life member of St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary and a member of Elmcrest Country Club.
She was a substitute teacher for a number of years in the Cedar Rapids Community High Schools.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Cynthia Good and her husband, James, of Gig Harbor, Wash.; two sons, Douglas of Seneca, S.C. and Richard and his wife, Jennie, of Edina, Minn.; four granddaughters, Kate Sikes and her husband, Chris, Elizabeth Cobian and her husband, Craig, Amanda Good and Stephanie Carlson; twin great-granddaughters, Isabel and Olivia Cobian; and a sister, Mildred Bruns and her husband, Carl, of Spencer.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Donald Douglass
Services are at St Paul's United Methodist Church. Dr. Robert Burkhart and the Rev. Lloyd Brockmeyer will officiate. Private burial will be in Garden of the Cross at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitations are at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home and Thursday at the church. Memorials may be made to St. Paul's United Methodist Church or to St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary Foundation.
She was born Nov. 6, 1919, in Hampton, the daughter of William F. and Cora Crouch Douglass. She married Milton E. Carlson March 14, 1943, in Muscatine.
She graduated from Hampton High School. She attended Iowa State University for two years and graduated with a bachelor's of science degree from the State University of Iowa in June 1941 and then taught at Muscatine High School, Muscatine.
She moved to Chicago while her husband attended the U.S. Army Signal Corp program, returning to Muscatine in 1944.
She was a member of AAUW. She sang in the Wesley United Methodist Choir and served on the board of trustees.
The family moved to Cedar Rapids in 1949, where she served as a past president of Cedar Rapids College Club, Washington High School PTA, Chapter JT of PEO and United Methodist Church Women. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, serving on the Board of Trustees, Worship and Pastoral Relations committees and was a 50-year member of the Family Fellowship class. She was a life member of St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary and a member of Elmcrest Country Club.
She was a substitute teacher for a number of years in the Cedar Rapids Community High Schools.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Cynthia Good and her husband, James, of Gig Harbor, Wash.; two sons, Douglas of Seneca, S.C. and Richard and his wife, Jennie, of Edina, Minn.; four granddaughters, Kate Sikes and her husband, Chris, Elizabeth Cobian and her husband, Craig, Amanda Good and Stephanie Carlson; twin great-granddaughters, Isabel and Olivia Cobian; and a sister, Mildred Bruns and her husband, Carl, of Spencer.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Donald Douglass