Bessie Leah Wilford, a 90-year old former resident of Galt, passed away at 10:30 p.m., Monday, April 11, 2022 at Sunnyview Nursing Home of Trenton, where she had resided since March 4, 2016.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, April 15, 2022 at the Galt Christian Church.
Burial will follow in Galt West Cemetery.
Open visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., Thursday, April 14, 2022 at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton.
Mrs. Wilford was born July 20, 1931 near Spickard, the daughter of Kermit J. and Gladys Lucille Vandevender Myers. She attended Blende School in Pueblo, CO and Fairview School in Myers Township before graduating from Galt High School with the class of 1949. She earned a Stenographers Certificate from Chillicothe Business College in 1950.
On Sept. 24, 1977 she was married to Robert M. Wilford by Bro. David Pummill at the Galt Christian Church. He survives.
Mrs. Wilford worked at Farmers Electric in Chillicothe from 1950 through 1953 and farmed in the Half Rock community until 1963. She was deputy county clerk of Caldwell County from 1963 through 1973 and owned and managed a laundromat in Stewartsville from 1967 to 1975. In 1975 she moved back to the Trenton area and worked for the City of Trenton and Sunnyview Nursing Home as a bookkeeper. She retired from the Division of Family Services in 1988.
She was a member of the Galt Christian Church.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughters, Cheryl King of Galt and Leah Verlene McDonald of Kearney; four grandchildren, Kathi Brundage of Liberty, Brad King and his wife, Laura of Bryan, TX, Brett King and his wife, Ashley of Crowley, TX and Suzie Morris and her husband, Jeff of Shawnee, KS; 12 great- grandchildren, Kennady, Alleea, Olivia, Kayla, Noah, Kyler and Mercedes King, Gavin Smith, Sgt. Dalton Olson U.S.M.C., Jacob, Shawn and Samantha Morris; and two great-great-grandchildren, Syrus Nathan King and Braxton Geoffrey Bunck.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a great-grandson, Nathan Michael King.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Galt Christian Church or the Galt Cemetery Associa-tion. They may be left with or mailed to the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.
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