Resting In Perfect Peace Mrs. Wilma A. Walston

Reflections and Remembrance

Mrs. Mae Wilma A. Walston, after 88 seasons of life, transitioned to Eternal Life on Monday morning, November 4, 2019 from Midwest City, Oklahoma.

The late Reverend John Henry and Essie Mae (Ewing) Halliburton were blessed with a beautiful baby girl on November 17, 1930 in Clearview, Oklahoma. They named her Wilma Arvella.

Wilma attended Rosenwald School near Henryetta, Oklahoma and spent most of her life in Okmulgee. Wilma met Alfred Walston, and they were married in 1951. She worked as a nurse’s aid for many years at Okmulgee Memorial Hospital as well as some of the local nursing homes. She also worked for Ramsey’s Department Store in downtown Okmulgee during her lifetime.

Mrs. Walston was a longtime, faithful member of the Shorter Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

Mrs. Walston was preceded in death by her husband, Alfred Walston; her parents; her son, Alfred Leonard Walston; her stepson, Ronnie Glazer; and a great-grandchild.

She leaves to cherish her memory: her daughter, La-Tonya Walston of Tulsa. Oklahoma; 12 grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; her sisters, Priscilla M. Hill of Richmond, California, Edith (Clifford) Marshall of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Merdis Word of Kansas City, Kansas; along with other nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Services were held Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at Shorter Chapel A. M. E. Church in Okmulgee with Pastor Freeman Culver officiating. Her final resting place is the Clearview Cemetery in Clearview, Oklahoma. All arrangements were under the direction of Keith Biglow Funeral Directors of Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, and Boley, Oklahoma.