Robert Q. Wilson Sr., 90, was born Jan. 8, 1924, and passed on to Heaven May 4, 2014.
He was a WWII veteran, having served in both Atlantic and Pacific theaters as a member of the Navy aboard the USS Wake Island, CVE 65.
He went on to graduate with a degree in agricultural engineering from Auburn University in 1950. There he met his future wife, Lula Mae, and married her in 1947.
He worked for International Harvester before owning his own business, Welding Supply of Alabama in Decatur.
He retired to Orange Beach in 1980. There he was active in church mission trips and traveling all over Mexico with his wife in their camper.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Lula Mae Wilson; his parents, Lawrence and Willie Mae Wilson; four brothers; and three sisters.
He leaves behind his two sons, Robert Q. Wilson Jr. and Lawrence A. Wilson (Chris); grandsons, Pat, Jon (Emily) and Drew Wilson; granddaughter, Ashley Wilson; and six great-grandchildren.
He will be greatly missed.
Services will be held for Mr. Wilson on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 1 p.m., at Pine Rest Funeral Home. There will be a visitation one hour prior to the funeral service.
Burial will follow in Pine Rest Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, the Wilsons request that donations be made to Gulf Shores United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 374, Gulf Shores, AL 36547, or American Legion Post 199 (Veteran’s Cemetery Fund), P.O. Box 473, Fairhope, AL 36533.
Arrangements by Pine Rest Funeral Home, Foley.
