WALTER A. WILSON

WALTER A. WILSON of Dallas, TX died January 13, 2016 at the age of 83. He worked with his family at the Wilson Funeral Home in Tampa, FL. He later moved to Texas and worked at Lott's Mortuary. In 1966, he founded the Cedar Crest Funeral Home in the Oak Cliff sector of Dallas. In 1980, Cedar Crest opened its Plano location and merged with Wilson Financial Group of Houston in 1987. He was a clinical instructor of embalming at Dallas Institute of Funeral Service and a 1959 graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science. Wilson was a member of the Dallas Local Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association and the Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity, Inc.