Howard Price ‘Sonny’ Wilson Jr.

Published 5:00 am Thursday, June 25, 2009

Graveside services for Howard Price “Sonny” Wilson Jr., ofWesson, are 4 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Friendship M.B. ChurchCemetery.

Visitation is Saturday from 2 until 4 p.m. at R.E. Tyler FuneralHome followed immediately by graveside services at thecemetery.

Mr. Wilson, 73, died June 23, 2009, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Lincoln County on Dec. 24, 1935, to HowardPrice Wilson Sr. and Walter Mae Johnson Wilson.

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He was a retired dairy farmer and a member of Friendship M.B.Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his son, Ernest Wilson, of Brookhaven; hisdaughters, Shirley Gordon, of Brookhaven, and Dorothy Young, ofHuntsville, Ala.; his brothers, Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Wilson,both of Brookhaven; his sisters, Sadie Mae Dickey, Virginia Wilson,Walter Ree Wilson, Myrtle Wilson and Loretta Edwards, all ofBrookhaven; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.