Burleson – Clara Lurline Everett passed away peacefully Sunday, October 16, 2016. She was born October 15, 1927 in Waco, Texas. As a child she was lovingly nicknamed “Precious” by her family. Clara attended High School in Dallas where she met her husband Luther Howard Wilson. It was love at first sight. They were married in Dallas on June 1, 1943. A WWII romance, Clara was 15 years old and Luther was 20. They raised six children Johnny, Danny, Gary, Jimmy, Jill and Mary. The family first lived in Dallas but in 1967 they moved to Burleson, TX to create, work and live on a 100-acre farm. During this time, Luther also worked his job as a lineman for Southwestern Bell and Clara was a full-time homemaker. She was an excellent seamstress and sewed many of her children’s clothes. She always had a large garden and canned food for her family. She was a great cook. Clara had a love of dolls her whole life. She started collecting dolls and then in 1990 she started her own small doll repair business called “Precious Dolls.” She made beautiful costumes for the dolls as well. Clara and Luther sold the farm in 1986 and moved to a home in Granbury on the lake where they lived their retirement years, fishing and going on RV trips. Their son Jimmy Glenn preceded Luther and Clara in death in 1984. Her husband Luther passed away in 2003. Luther and Clara were married 59 years. Service: Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 12:00 pm at Mayfield Kiser Funeral Home in Burleson. Visitation: Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 10:00-11:30 am at Mayfield Kiser Funeral Home. Interment at Laurel Land Memorial Park.
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Some of my favorite childhood memories contain Clara and the awesome, wholesome home environment of which she was responsible for. Her daughter, Mary, is still one of my closest friends, some 40 odd years later. Heaven hath truly gained a saint in Clara. May our great God comfort her family’s hurting hearts.
Some of my favorite childhood memories contain Clara and the awesome, wholesome home environment of which she was responsible for. Her daughter, Mary, is still one of my closest friends, some 40 odd years later. Heaven hath truly gained a saint in Clara. May our great God comfort her family’s hurting hearts.
Jill, Mary & family,
I have such sweet memories of your mom when I would come to visit you on the farm. Drinking that cows milk at breakfast & playing in the hay barn. And then of course playing in the creek with your brother Jimmy, too. What sweet memories you have. Love to you all.
Jill, Mary & family,
I have such sweet memories of your mom when I would come to visit you on the farm. Drinking that cows milk at breakfast & playing in the hay barn. And then of course playing in the creek with your brother Jimmy, too. What sweet memories you have. Love to you all.
Very fond memories of Windy Valley & its inhabitants…the home that Clara built. It was always awesome to go stay the weekend with her daughter, Mary – friends for 40+ years and counting. Heartfelt condolences and prayers for the family left behind…but huge joy for Clara, now face to face with Jesus and reunited with loved ones gone on before. Heaven has now grown a little sweeter.
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Psalm 116:15).
Very fond memories of Windy Valley & its inhabitants…the home that Clara built. It was always awesome to go stay the weekend with her daughter, Mary – friends for 40+ years and counting. Heartfelt condolences and prayers for the family left behind…but huge joy for Clara, now face to face with Jesus and reunited with loved ones gone on before. Heaven has now grown a little sweeter.
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Psalm 116:15).
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On behalf of my father Conrad, we all send our love to the Wilson family. My parents thought so much of Luther and Precious, they asked if the three Bavousett kids could be raised by the Wilsons if Mom and Dad ever ‘went out in a blaze of glory’. We have such wonderful memories of the windy Burleson farm, the dark-of-the-night family-reunion pool (full of frogs and surrounded by scorpions), the gorgeous Granbury lakehouse… all memories anchored by the full-of-love-and-laughter-and-music Wilson family. Precious always had a beautiful smile, unless she was giving me that sideways look when she thought I was pulling her leg. I still think of Precious every time I serve biscuits and gravy to my Dad. I know Precious is back in the arms of the love of her life, and Jimmy, Beverly, Lurline… all the family who loved her so dearly, together again. You’re in our hearts.
On behalf of my father Conrad, we all send our love to the Wilson family. My parents thought so much of Luther and Precious, they asked if the three Bavousett kids could be raised by the Wilsons if Mom and Dad ever ‘went out in a blaze of glory’. We have such wonderful memories of the windy Burleson farm, the dark-of-the-night family-reunion pool (full of frogs and surrounded by scorpions), the gorgeous Granbury lakehouse… all memories anchored by the full-of-love-and-laughter-and-music Wilson family. Precious always had a beautiful smile, unless she was giving me that sideways look when she thought I was pulling her leg. I still think of Precious every time I serve biscuits and gravy to my Dad. I know Precious is back in the arms of the love of her life, and Jimmy, Beverly, Lurline… all the family who loved her so dearly, together again. You’re in our hearts.