In Memory of

WILDA

IRENE

NASON

KILLINGSWORTH

Obituary for WILDA IRENE NASON KILLINGSWORTH

The family will receive friends on Thursday, September 1 from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M. at Brooks Chapel. Services will be 10:00 A.M. Friday, September 2 at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Steve Olsen, pastor, officiating. Private family burial will be at Dreamland Cemetery. Wilda was born May 23, 1923 in Cotton County, Oklahoma - just a mile from the Red River Bridge that divides Texas from Oklahoma. Her parents were Mary Tuel Nason and Albert Sawyer Nason. Wilda became a Christian at age 12. After graduating from high school, she traveled to Milford, Connecticut to marry her high school sweetheart, Dale Killingsworth, who was building airplanes for the United States. Dale entered the Army Air Force during WWII and served his country until the war ended in 1945. Early in 1946, they moved to Canyon where Dale opened his business. After Wilda's children were grown, she was employed at West Texas State University for 18 years. Most of those years were spent in the Educational Media Center as supervisor of work/study students. She was a member of TRTA, the Amarillo Genealogical Society, and the First Baptist Church of Canyon where she served in many different capacities throughout the years. For many years she kept a family journal. When she was 74, her children gave her a computer and taught her how to use it. She put her journal, her mother's letters, and her husband's poetry on the computer, and made copies for her children and grandchildren. Wilda loved her Lord, her family and her friends. She was preceded in death by her parents in 1983, her husband in 1995, and her son, Jim in 2014 and a sister, Doris Boles. She is survived by three daughters, Sherry Sunderman and husband, Kirby of The Woodlands, Leslie Cagle and husband, Rick of Rogers, AR, and Kim Ratliff of Corpus Christi; daughter-in-law, Karen Killingsworth of Santa Barbara, CA; a sister, Floradel Due; 10 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; and 1 great-great grandchild. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675 or to Faith City Mission, 401 S.E. 2nd Ave., Amarillo, TX 79101.