Wilma Solomon

Obituaries

July 23, 2011 - 12:00 AM

Former Humboldt resident Wilma Solomon, 95, of Williamsburg, Va., died Sunday, July 17, 2011.
She was born Jan. 27, 1916, in the Vilas community, to Arthur and Olga Carlson. She attended Wilson County schools and graduated from Buffalo High School in 1934. She received her teaching certificate from Pittsburg State Teacher’s College and taught six years in rural schools in Wilson County.
On May 4, 1941, she married Arthur Solomon of Rose. During their marriage, they farmed, raised commercial and registered beef cattle and trained mules, while Arthur pursued his career as manager of Production Credit Associations in Chanute, Greensburg and Howard.
During their active years, they lived in several Kansas communities including Humboldt, Benedict, Madison, Caney and Eureka before retiring in Humboldt in the 1980s. In 2006, she moved to Virginia to be near her family.
She was a member of Center Ridge Evangelical United Brethren Church as a child. As an adult, she actively participated in the education and women’s programs at First Baptist Church in Humboldt, Grant Avenue Baptist Church in Chanute as well as Baptist and United Methodist churches in the other communities. She liked to garden, bake and make homemade soap. Throughout her life she practiced her spiritual gift of hospitality, which she extended locally and internationally.
She is survived by a son, Les (L.D.) Solomon and his wife, Johanna, Williamsburg; a daughter, Joyce Miller and her husband, Byron, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; five grandchildren, Shannan Bolinger, Newport News, Va., Alys Crouse, Virginia Beach, Va., Darren and Pieter Miller, Wheaton, Ill., and Derek Miller, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; 10 great-grandchildren; and was known as “Grammie” to many children in the places where she had lived.
Her husband, Arthur Solomon, a daughter, Evelyn Solomon, two brothers, Melvin and Art Carlson Jr., and two sisters, Opal Erickson and Gladys Spong, died earlier.
Memorial services will be on Oct. 9 at First Baptist Church in Humboldt.
Memorials may be given to Hospice Care of Kansas or First Baptist Church in Humboldt. To leave a message for the family online go to [email protected], Facebook (Wilma.g.solomon) or Les Solomon, 113 Wetherburn Ln., Williamsburg, VA 23188.

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