Elizabeth "Lee" Carter Wilson, 89, widow of the Reverend Doctor Oscar R. (Bert) Wilson died on October 4, 2016 at Methodist Manor.

Funeral services will be Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Layton-Anderson Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Lake Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery, Timmonsville. The family will speak to those in attendance after the service at the cemetery. Mrs. Wilson was born in Roanoke, Virginia the daughter of the late Thornhill and Alice Carson Carter. She was a graduate of Appomattox High School and Longwood University both in Virginia. She earned post graduate Masters degrees in Religious Education and English from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and Clemson University. Her professional life was spent mostly as a public school teacher in AltaVista, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Anderson, South Carolina; and Florence, South Carolina. She also taught freshman English at Clemson University as an assistant. She retired from Florence School District One after being a Spanish teacher at South Florence High School. Mrs. Wilson was a faithful and active member of many Southern Baptist churches, and in later years of her life at Central Methodist Church here in Florence. She did volunteer work which included missions outreach programs, helping comfort patients at Anderson Memorial Hospital, and with the Florence Literacy Program.

Surviving are: her sister Nancy (Ralph) Brooks of Midlothian, VA. , six children, Danny(Mamen) Wilson of Mandeville, Louisiana, Ruth Wilson Julian of Charleston, SC, Joy (Lewis) Beck, Clemson, SC, Sarah Wilson Matthews of Florence, SC, Nathan (Shelley) Wilson of Central, SC and Mark (Jenny) Wilson of Lafayette, Louisiana; 15 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

The family would like to express their gratitude to the staff of Magnolia Terrace at the Methodist Manor also the McLeod Hospice Nurses and Staff.

Memorials may be made to McLeod Hospice, P O Box 100551, Florence, SC. 29501.

You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.laytonandersonfh.com