William H "Bill" Wilson

View Video Tribute View Funeral WebcastMr. William H. "Bill" Wilson, 85, retired employee of Caterpillar Incorporated and resident of West Main Street in Lynnville, died Sunday, April 1, 2012, at Countryside Health & Rehabilitation in Lawrenceburg. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 P.M. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Gary Bailey and Danny Ray Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Bryant Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 3:00 - 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of the late William Ervin Wilson and Billie Marie Hatcher Wilson. He served in the U. S. Army. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church and had also attended Mooresville Pike Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife of fifty-nine years, Betty Jo Jones Wilson of Lynnville; four sisters-in-law, Pauline Jones Tice of Culleoka; Sallie Jones Holder of Lewisburg; Thelma Turner Jones of Lynnville; Katherine Holder Jones of Columbia; one brother-in-law, Clifford Odell Jones of Manchester; and several nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Active pallbearers will be his nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be Bill & Elaine Wells, Duke Hamilton, Tommy Blalock, Imogene Ledford, Frances Hewitt, Larry Sands, Troy Hood, Chief Duane T. Jones, and friends and neighbors in Mooresville and Lynnville.