Angeline D. Wilson

Angeline Doubrava Wilson age 88 of San Antonio died Wednesday, August 6, 2008. She was born in Fayette County, Texas, in 1920. She was the second youngest of 7 children only one of whom was a boy. Her first language was Czech and she grew up on her family's farm. After graduating from Flatonia High School in 1938 she attended Draughn Business College in San Antonio while staying at the YWCA. She was also working and, while working, met her future husband, Glenn C. Wilson. They accelerated the date of their wedding to Valentine's Day, 1942, as a result of the events of December 7th, 1941. During World War II she and her husband lived in Amarillo and then Dalhart, Texas where her first child was born; Liberal, Kansas; Hunt, Texas; and then Dayton, Ohio where her second child was born. In 1945 she and her husband returned to San Antonio to raise their family. She lived in St. Peter Prince of the Apostles Parish from that time until her death. In the early 1960s after the birth of her third child she started working toward her college degree. In 1968 she obtained her Master's Degree from the University of the Incarnate Word and began her teaching career in the San Antonio Independent School District. She taught, primarily in special education programs, for 21 years before retiring in 1989. Her husband died in 1982. After his death she raised cattle on part of the land that was in the farm on which she was raised until entering the Retirement Community at Incarnate Word. She is survived by one sibling, her sister Annie, of Flatonia, Texas; her three children, Carol Ann Stansbury and her husband, Allen, of El Dorado Hills, California; Mariglen Burkman and her husband, Scott, of Austin, Texas; Robert Wilson and his wife, Esther, of Lockhart, Texas; her grandchildren, Anne Catherine Garcia and her husband, Domingo of McKinney, Texas; Glenn Stansbury and his wife, Lynn of Lincoln, California; Russell Stansbury of Santa Rosa, California; Brittany Burkman of Austin, Texas; Brandon Burkman of Houston, Texas; Rachel Wilson of Austin, Texas; Jeff Wilson of Austin, Texas; and Christina Seidel and her husband, Ted of College Station, Texas; as well as three great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. The family wishes to express their immense appreciation to the consideration and care exhibited toward her by the wonderful staff at the Incarnate Word Retirement Community during the last 7 years of her life.

Those desiring to give memorials may remember her with a gift to The Village of Incarnate Word; to the Czech Cultural and Heritage Society in LaGrange, Texas; to the San Antonio SPCA; or to a favorite charity.