Ollie Lear Wilson Obituary
From The Birmingham News, July 16, 1974
Submitted by Joann Holdbrooks
Mrs. Ollie Lear Wilson, 83, Ketona Nursing Home, who died Monday was a native of Winston County. She was the mother of "Happy" Wilson, widely known TV personality, and the mother-in-law of Marion Worth, a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry. Funeral will be at 2 p. m. Thursday at Elmwood Chapel with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Survivors are two sons, Eugene "Happy" Wilson, Nashville, Tenn, and Gene Wilson, Marietta, N. Y.; three sisters, Mrs. Lois Tankersley, Moulton, Mrs Audrey Hale, Forestdale, and Mrs. Mavis Gravitt, Haleyville, and three brothers, Bill Ellenburg, Haleyville, Thomas Ellenburg, San Mateo, Calif. and Ernest Welborn, Birmingham.