Margaret Patricia "Patty" DeMilly Wilson

Patricia was born May 6, 1933 in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the daughter of the late Nellie Pichard DeMilly and Pros Piere Devere DeMilly. A lifelong resident of Tallahassee, she graduated from Leon High School in 1952, was a member of the Leon High School band where she was a majorette, and an attendant on the traditional May Court. She attended Georgia Baptist School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia graduating with her RN in 1955. She worked as a Leon High School nurse and later worked 18 years at Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia as a psychiatric nurse.

She retired in 2003 to St Teresa Beach where she grew up spending the summers as a young girl. St Teresa Beach is a place she dearly loved and she enjoyed her retirement years there.

She was predeceased by her daughter Melanie Wilson Walker.

She is survived by a son, Robert Mack (Jeannie) Wilson, Jr. of Oviedo, Florida; a daughter Margaret DeMilly Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia; grandchildren, Megan Walker (Brett) Taylor, Myles Walker (Butch) Rowley, Meryl K Walker, Mitcham Walker, Kalee Wilson (Garrett) Mendelson, Emilee Kathryn Wilson, Rhett McGlamery Wilson, Holt Montgomery Wilson, and great grandchildren, Austin Leigh Taylor, Vivian Elizabeth Taylor, Nora Kate Taylor, Walker Anne Rowley, and Marley Mays Rowley.

She is also survived by a sister, JoNell (Larry) Sager of Tallahassee, Florida.

Funeral service will be held at 11:00am on Friday, June 30, 2017, at Culley’s MeadowWood Funeral Home located at 1737 Riggins Road, Tallahassee, FL 32308.

The Wilson family would like to extend a special thank you to Michelle Sanders, Deanna Murphy, Barbara Butler and other members of Big Bend Hospice for their excellent care. A very special thank you is also extended to Denise Cunningham, Patty’s personal care giver. We are so grateful for their love and compassion.