Service: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 23, Stacy-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services, Columbus Junction. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, Stacy-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services.

COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — Lelia Wilson, 89, Columbus Junction, died Monday, July 20, 2009, at Mercy Hospital Hospice Unit, Iowa City.

The Rev. Ronald Goode of the Sharon Congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian Church will officiate. 

Casketbearers will be Gary Todd, Tom Wasson, Willard Howell, Joe Howell, Doug Wilson and Ron Cutkomp.  Honorary casketbearers will be Burdette Boulton, Don Wilson and George Masson. 

Burial will be at the Columbus City Cemetery.  Following the interment, there will be a time of food and fellowship at the Columbus Junction United Methodist Church.  A memorial has been established for the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 500 S. Ave. D, Washington, IA 52353 or Mercy Hospital Hospice Unit in Iowa City in her name. 

Online condolences may be left at www.lewisfuneralhomes.com. 

Mrs. Wilson was born June 16, 1920, in Columbus City, the daughter of Hilton S. and Jennie E. (Boulton) Hanft.  She married Ralph S. Wilson Dec. 3, 1940, in Columbus City. 

She was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church where she was active in the women's missionary group.  She was a past Sunday school teacher, helping with many other church activities including church camp.  She was a member of the Shellbark Club and was active in the Peoples Partners of Community Bank. 

She was an avid St. Louis Cardinal and Hawkeye fan.  She had recently attended her 1938 high school class reunion. Her class had donated the victory bell at the Columbus Community School.

She will be dearly missed by her sons, Dave Wilson and wife, Ruth, Iowa City and Dan Wilson and wife, Mary, Columbus Junction; four grandchildren, Andrea Wilson of Toronto, Canada, Emily Wilson of Columbus Junction, Becky Bearbower and husband, Mike, Waterloo, and Stephen Wilson and wife, Stephanie, Solon.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ralph Nov. 1, 1976; a granddaughter, Anna Elizabeth Wilson; a sister, Corriene Hanft; and a brother, Lester Hanft.