Posted: 9:30 AM - Jan 16, 2008
From The Winchester Star dated Wednesday 16 January 2008.
Wilmer Leonidas Bill Landers, 78, formerly of Winchester, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2008, in Riverside Regional Hospital, Newport News.
Mr. Landers was born July 19,1929, in Lithia, the son of Thomas Bowyer and Madge Shark Landers Wilson. He retired in 1990 as a telegrapher from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX-Chessie System, after 45 years. He was a graduate of Miller School in Charlottesville.
He married Mabel McKay in 1953.
Surviving with his wife are three daughters, Anna Knighting Marquez of Bunker Hill, W.Va., Donna Dellinger of New Bern, N.C., and Sharon Landers of Yorktown; a sister, Donna Daarud of Clackamas, Ore.; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Judy Landers-Dyke Bryson, and a brother, Thomas Landers, are deceased.
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Shenandoah Memorial Park Chapel with Deacon Jimmy Evans officiating.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Wilmer L. Landers
Wilmer Leonidas Bill Landers, 78, formerly of Winchester, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2008, in Riverside Regional Hospital, Newport News.
Mr. Landers was born July 19,1929, in Lithia, the son of Thomas Bowyer and Madge Shark Landers Wilson. He retired in 1990 as a telegrapher from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX-Chessie System, after 45 years. He was a graduate of Miller School in Charlottesville.
He married Mabel McKay in 1953.
Surviving with his wife are three daughters, Anna Knighting Marquez of Bunker Hill, W.Va., Donna Dellinger of New Bern, N.C., and Sharon Landers of Yorktown; a sister, Donna Daarud of Clackamas, Ore.; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A daughter, Judy Landers-Dyke Bryson, and a brother, Thomas Landers, are deceased.
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Shenandoah Memorial Park Chapel with Deacon Jimmy Evans officiating.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.