St. Clair County Obits

WILMA J. WAGNER

Hill & Son Funeral Home
April 17, 1929 - September 13, 2003
Wilma J. (Westhusing) Wagner, 74, of Sedalia, Missouri, died September 13, 2003 at Bothwell Memorial Hospital. She was born April 17, 1929 at the Westhusing farm near Montrose, Missouri a daughter of Joseph Anthony “Tony” and Lena (Cook) Westhusing. Wilma attended Maple Grove Grade School in Germantown, Missouri for eight years. She attended high school at St. Francis Academy in Nevada, Missouri, Montrose High School in Montrose, Missouri, and graduated from Clinton High School in Clinton, Missouri in 1947. She always spoke fondly of her childhood friends, Dolores Putthoff, Betsy and Peggy Goth, Angeline Bettles and Arlene Westhusing. Wilma was married to Eugene H. Wagner October 21, 1947 at St. Ludger’s Catholic Church in Germantown, Missouri. She moved to Sedalia, Missouri August 7, 1950 where she lived and raised her five children until she was stricken with mental illness. She was preceded in death by her parents. Survivors include two sons, Richard Wagner of Pleasant Hill, Missouri and Joseph “Tony” Wagner of Sedalia, Missouri; three daughters, Teresa Britton, Brenda Wagner and Linda Wagner all of Sedalia, Missouri; four granddaughters, Cindy Wagner of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Sherry King of Kansas City, Missouri, and Gena and Kelly Britton both of Sedalia, Missouri; one brother, Ed Westhusing of Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri; and three sisters, Edith Wilkerson of Liberty, Missouri, Maxine Van Dyke of Eudora, Kansas and Faye Haynes of Sun Lakes, Arizona.