Mrs. Wilburn was born in Lake Charles on July 15, 1936 to Felix Lem Yeates and Anna Keever Yeates. She lived most of her life in Sulphur and was a graduate of the Sulphur High School class of 1954. She received her B.S. degree from LSU and her M.Ed. from McNeese State University. She was a retired teacher having taught at Sulphur High School and White Castle High School. She was a member of the Calcasieu-Cameron Retired Teachers Association and of the Louisiana Retired Teacher Association District Six, and was a member of the XI Alpha XI Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi in which she served in all offices.
As a member of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church, she was a former religious education teacher, a Trustee, and a member of the Pastoral Council on which she served as secretary and president and a member of the Altar Society. She also served the church as the chairperson of the building committee for the church complex and received an apostolic blessing for that service and the Devoted Service Award from the parish. She also served as a greeter and Eucharistic minister along with serving in hospital ministry.
She is survived by her sons, Mark Wilburn and wife, Rachel of Sulphur, Michael Wilburn and wife, Beth of Austin, Texas, and David Wilburn and wife, Tracy of Sulphur; eight grandchildren, Katie Wilburn Cart and husband, Jason, Courtney Wilburn Marse and husband, R.J., Trent Wilburn, Grant Wilburn, Abby Wilburn Kennon and husband, Sean, Matt Wilburn, Morgan Fontenot, and Kyle Fontenot and wife, Taylor; and eleven great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Jerry Allen Wilburn.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, October 20, in Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church. The Rev. Edward Richard, M.S. will officiate. Burial will be in Mimosa Pines Cemetery South in Carlyss under the direction of Hixson-Sulphur Memorial Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of the funeral mass in the church hall. A Rosary service will begin at 11 a.m. Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.hixsonfuneralhomes.com.
