Mr. Walter Wynn Wilson

WALTERBORO - Mr. Walter Wynn Wilson, Jr., 89, entered into rest Thursday afternoon, October 23, 2014, at his home on Lynnwood Road in the Forest Hill Subdivision of Walterboro surrounded by his loving family and while under the care of Hospice Care of South Carolina.
Graveside services will be conducted at 10 o'clock AM Monday at the New Home Church of Christ Cemetery, 186 New Home Church Rd., Dobson, North Carolina. The family will receive friends Sunday from 5 to 7 P.M. at the Moody Funeral Home in Mt. Airy.
Born March 7, 1925, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late Walter Wynn Wilson, Sr. and the late Grace Bell Warden Wilson. During his life time because of his work and call to the ministry his family resided in many places in the upper mountains of North Carolina and Virginia to including Black Mountain, North Carolina and Galax, Virginia prior to the couple making the Lowcountry of South Carolina their home for the past three years. He served in the United States Army during World War II where he was a Private First Class, served in Radio Operations, and prior to his Honorable Discharge was awarded two Bronze Stars. He was a graduate of McLain's College where he received his degree in Business. Walter's life demonstrated dedication, faithfulness, and love. He was a Field Auditor with the North Carolina State Internal Revenue Service beginning in 1960 at Raleigh, North Carolina and worked a career that spanned the course of thirty years at the time of his retirement in 1990 from Asheville, North Carolina. He also was employed with Commercial Credit in Bluefield, West Virginia as a Loan Advisor.
His unwavering faith and service continued to be demonstrated through his ministry. Locally, he attended Northside Christian Church in Walterboro. He was a member of New Home Church of Christ in Dobson, North Carolina where he had served this congregation as their Minister. His Lay Ministry led him to supply the pulpits of numerous congregations. He was instrumental in the founding of Friendly City Church of Christ in Durham, North Carolina and Swannanoa Church of Christ in Swannanoa, North Carolina.
Walter will be fondly remembered for his humor and wit, always ready to share a good humored joke with anyone. He was an author and publisher, having authored numerous books as well as publishing a monthly newsletter, "Christian Visitor". He was a member of Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are: his wife, the light and love of his life for sixty-eight years, Mrs. Mildred Hensley Wilson; two sons, Randy Wilson and his wife Toshiko of Walterboro and Wayne Wilson and his wife LuAnn of Winston Salem, North Carolina; two grandchildren, Kelly Jones and Emily Pelsue; and five great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Charlotte Jean Wilson.
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