Wilma Ray Weisenburger

September 22, 1919 - October 27, 2012

Wilma Weisenburger died Oct. 27 at Cypress Glen Senior Lifestyle Community in Greenville, NC. She was 93 yrs old.

A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 11 AM in the Brown Chapel at Cypress Glen, Greenville, NC. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, Nov. 3rd at 2:00 PM at the First United Methodist Church in Brunswick, GA.

Wilma was born in Hortense, Wayne County (now Brantley), Georgia on September 22, 1919, the fifth child of Alvah Ray and Nora Middleton Adams. She was a beloved school teacher and later principal in Glynn County for over 30 years. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, TN. and an Ed S. degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Wilma’s first marriage to Guy William Brown of Fendig, GA in 1941 made her a “war bride”. Guy Brown had an electrical engineering degree from the University of Nevada in Reno, and was a commissioned officer in the ROTC. He later transferred to the Army Air Corp and was the pilot of a B-29 bomber during WWII. After the war, they settled in Brunswick GA, where Guy was offered a position with Georgia Power Company. He stayed with GA Power until his untimely death in 1975. Wilma and Guy had no children of their own, so they helped rear their 5 nieces, 9 nephews, a few 100 school children and Sunday School children at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Brunswick where they were members for all of their adult life.

When Guy died, Wilma changed her course in life. She first went to Cooke Barracks, Goppingen, Germany where she taught EASL to armed forces personnel for 17 months. She traveled extensively and met her second husband Larry E. Brown of Greenville, NC on a tour bus in China in 1979. They settled in Greenville and lived there until Larry’s death in 1990. Wilma put on her traveling suit again and explored more of Europe and Egypt.

She met and married her third husband, Harry Weisenburger in 1993. Their home was in San Francisco, CA. With this marriage she became the mother of five adult, married children, and a grandmother of 12, at the age of 74. They traveled together to many more places including Mexico, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland. When Harry died, she moved back to Greenville, NC to reside in Cypress Glen. She wishes to be cremated there and her ashes will be brought back to Brunswick GA to be placed next to her first love, Guy Brown.

She is predeceased by her parents, her brothers, Winton Adams of Nahunta, Dow Adams of Arlington, VA, Ronald Adams of Brunswick, GA, her sisters, Claire Adams O’Quinn of St Simons Island GA, and Maxine Adams of Hortense, GA.

Wilma will be sorely missed by her survivors; one sister, Jean Adams Walker of Jesup, GA; and one brother, Grayson Adams of New Port Richey, Florida; many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews, and stepchildren and their children.

Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home & Crematory, Greenville, NC and Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home, Brunswick, GA.