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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Wilma 'Billee' Lorraine Douglass Carlson, 83, of Regency
South, 100 Thompson Drive SE, died Sunday, March 2, 2003, at St. Luke's Hospital after
emergency surgery.
Services are at St Paul's United Methodist Church. Dr. Robert Burkhart and the Rev.
Lloyd Brockmeyer will officiate. Private burial will be in Garden of the Cross at Cedar
Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitations are at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home and Thursday at the church. Memorials may
be made to St. Paul's United Methodist Church or to St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary
Foundation.
She was born Nov. 6, 1919, in Hampton, the daughter of William F. and Cora Crouch
Douglass. She married Milton E. Carlson March 14, 1943, in Muscatine.
She graduated from Hampton High School. She attended Iowa State University for two years
and graduated with a bachelor's of science degree from the State University of Iowa in
June 1941 and then taught at Muscatine High School, Muscatine.
She moved to Chicago while her husband attended the U.S. Army Signal Corp program,
returning to Muscatine in 1944.
She was a member of AAUW. She sang in the Wesley United Methodist Choir and served on the
board of trustees.
The family moved to Cedar Rapids in 1949, where she served as a past president of Cedar
Rapids College Club, Washington High School PTA, Chapter JT of PEO and United Methodist
Church Women. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, serving on the
Board of Trustees, Worship and Pastoral Relations committees and was a 50-year member of
the Family Fellowship class. She was a life member of St. Luke's Hospital Auxiliary
and a member of Elmcrest Country Club.
She was a substitute teacher for a number of years in the Cedar Rapids Community High
Schools.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Cynthia Good and her husband, James, of Gig
Harbor, Wash.; two sons, Douglas of Seneca, S.C. and Richard and his wife, Jennie, of
Edina, Minn.; four granddaughters, Kate Sikes and her husband, Chris, Elizabeth Cobian and
her husband, Craig, Amanda Good and Stephanie Carlson; twin great-granddaughters, Isabel
and Olivia Cobian; and a sister, Mildred Bruns and her husband, Carl, of Spencer.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Donald Douglass.
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