{"id":239,"date":"2015-06-05T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-01-09T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:25:47","slug":"marie-wilkerson-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Marie Wilkerson Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On 23 May 2015, my great-aunt Marie Lawrence Wilkerson Nelson died. \u00a0She was my grandmother Helon’s younger sister.<\/p>\n

I remember calling her “Ahnt” Marie one time. \u00a0She scolded me something fierce and informed me that she was my “ant” Marie. \u00a0Apparently my quarter Yankee blood was showing. \u00a0After that I had my “ahnts” and my “ants”. \u00a0I still giggle about this.<\/p>\n

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Aunt Marie was also the person who taught me a trick for remembering phone numbers — putting them to music or at least a good beat. \u00a0We then danced around Grandmom and Granddad’s den while singing Papa and Nana’s phone number. \u00a0To this day I will sing that phone number in my head and want to do a dance.<\/p>\n

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My family is a sports loving family. \u00a0By that I mean we prefer to sit in seats and observe rather than participate, but Marie loved playing golf. \u00a0 Every so often someone would remind her that although she was probably the best golfer in the family, her sister Helon was the one with the hole-in-one.<\/p>\n

Once at a Duke football game way back in the 1970s, we were quite bored. \u00a0(Duke football then was very hit or miss — mostly miss.) \u00a0Then the student who was the mascot walked thru the stands. \u00a0This was when you could actually see the person’s face, before they started donning those huge heads and such. Marie elbowed me in the side and whispered that the mascot was a handsome devil. \u00a0(She wasn’t a quiet whisperer.) \u00a0Shortly after that a streaker ran across the field and she half-heartedly covered my eyes. \u00a0She was laughing too hard to cover them completely.<\/p>\n

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Marie’s obituary:<\/p>\n

COLUMBIA\u2014 On a beautiful evening, May 23, 2015, Marie Wilkerson Nelson went to be with her Lord Jesus Christ. She was born January 10, 1928, in Durham, North Carolina. Marie was the daughter of the late Joseph Lawrence and Nellie Clark Wilkerson and the wife of the late Al Watson Nelson for 58 years. She was a charter member of St Andrews Presbyterian Church, a member of the Christian Women\u2019s Club, and volunteered with Meals on Wheels. Marie was an excellent seamstress, making clothes and beautiful quilts. Marie and Al loved to travel and especially enjoyed cruises. She was an avid golfer and bridge player for many years. Marie worked part time at JB Whites and was known at Gold Gym as \u2018grooving granny\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

She is survived by her three daughters, Linda Nelson Davis (Robbie) of Columbia, Susan Nelson Dox (Allan) of Irmo, and Cathy Nelson Raddatz of Irmo; six grandchildren, Kelly Sawyer (Todd), Steven Davis (Erica), Adam Dox (Courtney), Justin Dox, Rachel Barclay (Web), Caitlin Raddatz; four great granddaughters, Ella Davis, Eleese Sawyer, Addy Lane Dox, and Sadie Dox; sister-in-law, Zada Lee Nelson; nephew, Bill Kirkland (Ann); nieces, Pam Nelson Wheeler (Doug) and Peggy Nelson. Marie was predeceased by her sister, Helon Wilkerson Kirkland and cousins.<\/p>\n

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On 23 May 2015, my great-aunt Marie Lawrence Wilkerson Nelson died. \u00a0She was my grandmother Helon’s younger sister. I remember calling her “Ahnt” Marie one time. \u00a0She scolded me something fierce and informed me that she was my “ant” Marie. \u00a0Apparently my quarter Yankee blood was showing. \u00a0After that I had my “ahnts” and my … Continue reading Marie Wilkerson Nelson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wilkerson-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}