Clena Wilson shawnee kansas
methodist church organist DAR
Clena Wilhannah Jones born July 22, 1919
Kansas City, Mo
She died Jan 1, 2023, Funeral planned for 22 July 2023 in Shawnee.
She was 103 years old.
Married Charles Francis Wilson, May 12, 1946 in
Shawnee, Kansas, in the living
room
of the house her grandfather Jones built, the house she lived in most of her
life.
Graduated Shawnee Mission Rural (north) High School 1937.
And the Kansas City Business College.
Clena was the organist for the Shawnee United Methodist Church for 33
years.
and only stopped playing when she fell at a wedding practice and broke her shoulder,
she
never
regained enough motion in her arm to reach up and turn the music pages. So she
retired
She worked for the Gas Service Co. in Merriam, Kansas and was a teller at the
Mission State Bank in Mission, Kansas during WW2.
She was Assistant City Clerk for the City of Shawnee for l5 years. (1962 -
1975) back
when Shawnee was a small town.
She is a member of the DAR. That means she is directly related to a person that
fought in the Revolutionary war.
She had a twin brother ( Wilson Fremont Jones, jr) , Her Mother died of
complications for
giving birth. She was raised in Shawnee by her grandparents
John Wilson Jones, and Jenny Jones (Hart)
In 103 years she had done so many things that even if I knew most of them I wouldn't
have room to list everyone. !!!
Part of the greatest generation, she lived through the depression,
WW2, and many more wars.
when she was born, woman couldn't yet vote, there was NO Radio or TV,
Indoor plumbing was a relatively new idea in Shawnee, as was electric lights.
There were no refrigerators only ice boxes,
She was so very proud of Shawnee, and Kansas.. She was a little Kansas
Sunflower.
if you would like a email reminder of the funeral, send an email to her son John
at wa0dyu@gmail.com
I must apologize, this web was a work in progress and mostly never completed,
Note: many of these photo's can be enlarged by clicking on them.
enjoy. John Wilson
| At the Shawnee Methodist Church |
Clena Pearl Kanally Her
mothers sister.
Wilson (Buddy)
Grandfather John Wilson Jones |
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grand daughter Jennifer
husband Charles |
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Wedding Day 1946
Lillian Philgreen, Clena - Charles,
his brother William (Bill) |
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| Grand Father John Wilson Jones |
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| Clena, Grand mother Jennie Jones (Hart),
Brother Wilson (Buddy) |
Her Father (on the right)
Grand Father John Wilson Jones |
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| Charles & Clena |
Clena and her brother with step mother, Pearl
again with her mother's sister Marie
remember her mother died of complications of the twins birth. |
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| with her mother's sister Marie |
2007 with Great GrandSon
Ethan Call |
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| with her mother's sister Pearl |
with her mother's sister Marie |
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with her mother's sister Pearl
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| Walking to her seat of honor , last July , at
her 103rd birthday party.
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This is not trick photography, a really big Kansas Sunflower,
summer of 2013, at her house in Shawnee.
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