Wilda Dean Taylor

Wilda Dean Wommack was born in Ida, Louisiana on November 1, 1935 to James and Jessie Wommack She has one older sister, Melba Ramey and was reared by a single parent, her mother. Wilda lived in Antlers, Oklahoma until she completed the tenth grade. On Oct. 12, 1945 a very strong tornado hit her home town of Antlers, Oklahoma. Wilda, her sister and mother survived the storm that killed over a hundred people and hurt hundreds more.

While growing up, Wilda spent all her time in church, with church activities and her school studies. Wilda was an excellent student. She made straight A’s in school. She graduated from East Texas State Teachers College with high honors. (one B)

At the beginning of her eleventh grade year, she and her mother moved to Hugo, Oklahoma about twenty miles from Antlers, Oklahoma. Hugo is the home town of Gerald Taylor. Gerald was at this time serving in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Okinawa. In Oct., 1950 Gerald returned to the U.S. While on leave visiting family and friends before reporting for duty in New York brother Harold introduced Gerald to Wilda. We were a perfect match then and sixty-five years later we still are. A year later on Sept. 24, 1952 we were married. We have had sixty- three years of beautiful marriage. On Feb. 12, 1955 our son Gerald Jr. was born in Paris, Texas. He and his wife, Florina, of forty – three years have given us two grand- daughters and one grand-son all of whom we are very proud and love very much. We also have eight great-grand children and two great great-grand children that we love very much.

We completed high school and college together. We earned a teaching certificate from East Texas State Teachers College. We taught school for three years at Guadalupe Station located on highway 180 between El Paso, Texas and Carlsbad, New Mexico. Wilda taught grades one, two and three and I taught grades four, five and six. We moved to Calif. In 1960 and Wilda taught second grade for the next twenty-eight years in Patterson, Calif. I held various positions in the same school district for the same time.

In 1989 we retired from teaching and moved to the Westciffe area, we enjoyed living there for the next ten years. Wilda especially enjoyed all the wild life and the wild flowers in that area and around the state. She enjoyed very very much all the trips and cook-outs we had with Darrell and Genny Kness and Harold and Loretta Taylor.

In 1999 we moved to Pueblo, Co. where we currently live. Wilda dearly loves our house and had so so much fun buying furniture and doing little thing to make it us. She always loved decorating inside and out at the different seasons. She loved growing flowers and was very good at doing so.

The Lord called Wilda home on Oct. 20 at three-thirty. As much as she is and will always be missed and loved, I know she is with the Lord and is no longer in pain and that she loved us all very very much.