Alberta Short Wilson

LAUREL - Alberta Short Wilson, of Laurel, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, at the Delmar Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Delmar. She was born in Greenville, a daughter of the late Floyd and Edith Short. Mrs. Wilson was a poultry and grain farmer for 37 years with her late husband Marshall Harry Wilson whom passed in on April 17, 1978. She attended Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church in Laurel. Alberta loved to shop and especially enjoyed her family reunions. She will be remembered by her loved ones for her care of her garden and love of her flowers. In addition to her husband, she is preceded in death by a son, Marshall H. Wilson Jr.; her brothers, Tom Short, and Floyd Short; and her sisters, Mildred Reiff, Alice Clendening, Emma Griffith, and Evelyn Davis. She is survived by daughters, Barbara A. Mullins and her husband David of Millsboro and Alice M. Elliott and husband Keith of Laurel; a son, Michael J. Wilson of Laurel; grandchildren, Kevin Elliott, Krystal Bush and her husband Mark, Julie Mullins, Dawn Mullins, and Michelle Wilson; two great-grandchildren, Kyle and Tyler; her brothers, Wilson Short and his wife Clara, and John Short and his wife Anne; her sisters, Edith Cycyk and her husband Steve and Beatrice Gamble, Shirley Schmid, Margery Wilson and her husband John; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday in Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, Mt. Pleasant Church Road, Laurel, where a viewing will be from 1-2 p.m. Rev. Dale Evans will officiate. Interment will follow the service at Springhill Memory Garden in Hebron, Md. Memorial contributions can be made in her memory to the Alzheimer's Association, 2306 Kirkwood Hwy., Wilmington, DE 19805. Arrangements are in the care of the Hannigan, Short, Dishroon Funeral Home, 700 West St., Laurel.