Mrs. and Mrs. Roy James of Logan, W. Va., are announcing plans for the marriage of their daughter, Laura Lee, to John Owens Wilson, formerly of St. Petersburg, son of Mrs. Candler W. Wilson, 147 Eighth Avenue North, and Frank Wilson, Tallahassee.

The couple will be married at 8 p.m. July 29 in First Christian Church, Atlanta. There will be a reception afterward in the Georgian Terrace Hotel.

The bride-elect, a native of Follansbee, W. Va., graduated from St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh. She has just received her BS degree in Nursing Education from the University of Pittsburgh.

Miss James is one of 500 nurses of the country who are attending the quadrennial of the International Congress of Nurses in Rio de Janiero. She leaves today on the SS Argentine and will remain in Brazil a month.

A native of Darlington, SC, Mr. Wilson came to St. Petersburg at the age of 3. He attended schools here, graduated from St. Petersburg High School and from Junior College. He served during World War II in the Air Force as a pilot with duty in the Phillipine Islands.

Now in business in Nashville, Mr. Wilson received his chemical engineering degree in 1947 from the University of Florida, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

HUSBAND'S OBITUARY - Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV), April 2, 2008 - JOHN OWENS WILSON, 84, formerly of Huntington, W.Va., husband of Laura Lee Wilson of Ocala, Fla., died March 12. He was a retired engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Huntington. Donations may be made to Hospice.

OBITUARY OF LAURA LEE JAMES WILSON -- Laura Lee James Wilson, 92, passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. She was born in Wellsburg, West Virginia, on February 19, 1926 to Roy and Margaret (McCuskey) James. She graduated from Follansbee High School in 1943 and entered nursing school at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA soon after. She earned her diploma in 1945 [error: 1946] and her BS in Nursing Education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1953.- Laura Lee married John Owens Wilson on July 19, 1953 and they settled down in Huntington, West Virginia to raise a family. She taught nursing, first at St. Mary's Hospital and then Marshall University. In 1972, she earned a Masters Degree in Sociology from Marshall University, which earned her assistant professor status and enabled her to teach Bachelors-level courses. In 1980, she earned another Masters, this one in Nursing, from Ohio State University. Soon after, she was appointed to the West Virginia Board of Examiners, where she served for eight years. Laura Lee and John retired in 1990 to Rock Hill, South Carolina where they lived until 2008. That year they moved to Ocala, Florida to be closer to their children. Laura Lee was a long-time member of the American Association of University Women and also a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution. She was Episcopalian and a member of the Daughters of the King. She was a skilled seamstress and enjoyed swimming, baking and embroidery. - Laura Lee was predeceased by her husband of 53 years. - She is survived by her sister, Susan Delores Harris; her children, Margaret Wayne Arthur (Ocala), Janet Lee (Gavin) McGrath (Sevenoaks, Kent, UK), John Owens Wilson, Jr. (Largo, Florida), and Laura Lee (Jerry) Sims (Savannah, Georgia); grandchildren, Eileen Dwyer McGrath (Andrew) Carnwath (Edinburgh, Scotland), Megan James McGrath (Phillip) Bailey (London, England), Katharine Elizabeth McGrath (Sevenoaks), Caleb McCuskey Sims and Annabelle Sims (Savannah), and Lisa Marie Wilson (Largo, Florida); and three great-grandchildren. - A memorial service for Laura Lee will be held Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 12 Noon at Christ the King Anglican Church, at 4440 SE Third Avenue, Ocala, Florida,. Her ashes will be interred in the columbarium of St. John's Episcopal Church, in Huntington, West Virginia. Donations to Alzheimer's Association in lieu of flowers are gratefully accepted. Arrangements by Crevasse's Simple Cremation, 352-433-1798.

Published in Ocala Star-Banner from June 10 to June 11, 2018