Funeral Services for Brenda Lynn Wilson, Age 59 of Licking, Missouri will be held on Friday, February 6th, 2026 at The Evans Funeral Home, Houston, Missouri beginning at 1:00 PM. Visitation will be held prior to the service beginning at 12-Noon. Interment will be in the Ellis Prarie Cemetery, Bucyrus, Missouri.
Brenda Lynn (Walker) Wilson was born on March 31,1966 to Bill Dean Walker and Ida Louise (Bates) Walker in Melrose Park, Chicago, Illinois, and died at Mercy Hospital St. Louis on February 1, 2026, due to cancer.
At the age of 13, she and her parents moved to Tucson, Arizona. After she graduated there from high school, she went to community college to study nursing and got her LPN. She met her childhood sweetheart the day they moved to Tucson. She married Mickey Ray Wilson, on October 12th, 1996, at the Reid Park Zoo in front of the tiger cage. Tigers were her favorite animal. She, along her husband Mickey, worked with the youth groups at Westside Missionary Baptist Church in Tucson and at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Safford, Arizona. She was camp nurse for several church camps for the BMA Of Arizona. Brenda and Mickey, along with their son Jesse, moved to Missouri to live with her parents to help take care of her mother.
Brenda was preceded in death by her father Billy, mother Louise, and her sister Mary Louise Gilbert.
She was survived by her husband Mickey from Licking, MO; her brother and sister-in-law, Billy Ray and Maria Walker of Tucson AZ; her son and daughter-in-law, Jesse James Dean and Lydia Wilson from Licking, MO, son and daughter-in-law, Christopher Ray and Lacey Wilson from Honea Path, SC, and her daughter and son-in-law, Leona Darlene and Joe Morris of Safford, AZ; 10 grandchildren, 5 nieces and nephews, and two adopted children, Edward Michael Martinez of Columbus TX. and Cole Wilson of Ft. Riley Army Base Kansas. She is and will be missed by all who knew and loved her.
