Lois Marene Wilson

Lois Marene Wilson was born July 17,1933 in Glendale, California to Edith Glaze (Young) and Fred Glaze. Lois spent most of her formative years in Glendale through grade school. She attended Newbury Park Adventist Academy in Newbury Park, California for all four years of high school graduating with the first charter four year graduating class in the school’s history. After high school Lois attended La Sierra Adventist College near Riverside, California where she studied nursing hoping to become a medical missionary.

To help finance her college education she worked the first summer selling Bible based books door to door. She loved Jesus and enjoyed sharing the gospel with everyone she came in contact with. At one home a lady was very interested in buying some of Lois’s books. Later she introduced her son, Harold Wilson, Jr., to Lois. Harold fell in love immediately and soon they were married. Shortly after the wedding the couple moved to Simi Valley, California (1954) and quickly started their extended family. First born was Stephen, born in 1955. Eighteen months later Wayne was born and eighteen months after Wayne, Bruce was born.

Lois was a ‘stay-at-home’ mom until her boys started grade school. After her boys started school, she became the school secretary where they attended. After the last son graduated from elementary school, Lois returned home as a loving homemaker. She also spent time with artistic endeavor’s creating beautiful sketches and needle point. She also loved to spend time in her garden.

In 1979 Harold and Lois decided to move to the country and bought a five-acre property and home, on north Abiqua Creek in Silverton, Oregon. They loved their life at this home. As growing in age started making attending to the requirements of taking care of five acres along with a few cattle and sheep, it became necessary to sell the property and move to Salem, Oregon in 1997 where they both lived until their deaths.

Preceding Lois in death was her son Wayne in 1988 at 31 years of age and Harold who passed away in 2006.

Lois was a faithful believer in Jesus as her savior, and helped as many people as possible to know Jesus with her beautiful living example and by donations to a variety of charitable causes.

Lois died on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at the Salem Health Hospital.

She is survived by two sons, Steve and Bruce, one daughter, Mary Smith, five grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, and five great, great grandchildren.

Lois was loved by all that knew her. She will be dearly missed.