GARDEN CITY - Wilma Wanda (Wilkerson) Moore, 90, of Garden City, died Nov. 12, 2023. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m.-7p.m., Nov. 16, at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m., Nov. 17, at Garden City Cemetery.
She was born Oct 1, 1933, in Big Spring, to Marion Cecil and Laura Mae (Bryans) Wilkerson. She was raised on the family ranch in Glasscock County and graduated from Garden City High School in 1951.
She attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, then moved to Midland. There she met her husband of 68 years, Floyd Bennett Moore. Bennett and Wanda were married July 1, 1955. They became members of St. Mark's Methodist Church in Midland in 1956. She was a devoted Christian and the spiritual leader of her family. She was very active in her church. After Covid hit, she attended the Methodist Church in Garden City, the church she grew up in.
She was beautiful, smart, kind, and talented. She was disciplined and hard working and an excellent seamstress and talented quilter. She was a Master Gardener and her lawns were proof of that and she loved vegetable gardening, canning and freezing the results of her labor. She was a wonderful cook. Her chocolate pie was always a staple at all holiday and family gatherings. She loved to travel and blessed to have traveled to several European countries, along with Egypt and Jordan. She also visited many states throughout the U.S.
She was a devoted wife, mom, Gran and friend. Her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the light of her life. She loved attending all their activities: any and all types of school sports, activities, 4H and stock showing. She was just getting started on the great-grandkids' activities of t-ball and soccer. She always remembered friends and family with a birthday card and gift.
She was preceded in death by her parents Cecil and Mae Wilkerson, her brother Marion Wilkerson, her brother and sister-in-law, Milton and Peggy Carver and nephew, Jim Carver.
She is survived by her husband Bennett Moore; daughter Laura Havlak and husband Fred of Garden City; son Allan Moore and wife Jacinda of Granbury; grandchildren, Seth Havlak of Sterling City, Erin (Havlak) Michalewicz and husband Lance of Miles, Mathew Moore of Granbury, and Amanda (Moore) Julian and husband Brian of Jackson, TN; great grandchildren: Ross, Creed, and baby-on-the way Michalewicz, and Charlotte Julian.
Honorary pallbearers: Fred Havlak, Seth Havlak, Lance Michalewicz, Mathew Moore, Ross Michalewicz, and Creed Michalewicz.
Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home and Crematory.