Individual Details
Clarence Douglas WILDER
(26 Mar 1925 - 16 Feb 2009)
Events
| Birth | 26 Mar 1925 | Mississippi | |||
| Death | 16 Feb 2009 | Oakland, Fayette County, TN |  |  | |
| Marriage | Living |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Byron Neely WILDER (1887 - 1979) |
| Mother | Hester Viola FURR (1891 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Milton Russell WILDER (1915 - 1967) |
| Sibling | Marvin Furr WILDER (1918 - 1969) |
Notes
Death
Fayette County - CLARENCE D. WILDER, 83, of Oakland, formerly of Memphis, retired Sales Associate for Dillard’s Men’s Apparel and U.S. Army Veteran died February 16, 2009. Services with Military Honors will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel at Oakland. Private Interment: West TN Veterans Cemetery. A Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Peebles West Chapel. A World War II Prisoner of War drafted at the age of 18, he served in the 85th Division, 338th Infantry Battalion in Co. L. captured by the Germans in 1944 and liberated by the Rainbow Infantry Division attached to General George Patton in May of 1945. A Baptist and American Legion member, Mr. Wilder leaves his wife, Fay Caldwell Wilder and daughter, Beverly Jo Wilder of Oakland and devoted dog “Dumplin”. Memorials requested to St. Jude Hospital. Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home—West Chapel Oakland, TN.Endnotes
1. The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, February 18, 2009.