A Great Life to Celebrate, and Remember!
On June 26, 1940, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma Varnell and Katherine Wilson, husband and wife were blessed with their only child, a little boy who was loved and cherished by both parents. The name of Adolph Curtis Wilson was given to this beloved child.

Adolph started school in Okmulgee, Oklahoma and attended Banneker Elementary School until the end of his 4th grade year, when he moved to Kansas City, Kansas with his parents in 1951. He attended Douglas and Stowe Elementary School. In 1953, he attended Northeast Jr. High and graduated in 1956. While attending Northeast he played basketball and ran track. He later attended Sumner High School and graduated in 1959. While at Sumner, he became one of the greatest athletes to ever graduate from the school. He was a starter on the Varsity teams in all sports, starting from his first year until he graduated in 1959. He was also captain or co-captain on all of the different sports teams as well. He was offered many athletic scholarships from both large universities as well as small colleges. He decided to accept a full athletic scholarship from Wichita University along with three other friends, where he played three years on the Varsity Football team, and played in the Sun Bowl in 1961.

While attending Wichita University, he married Joyce Renee Collins in 1960, and was blessed with two children named Curtis and April Wilson. He was also blessed with an older daughter, Joy Mooney. Upon graduating from Wichita University in 1964, which was later named Wichita State University he accepted his first full time job as a U.S. Marshall for Wichita, Kansas. He held this position for three years, and decided to move back to Kansas City where he accepted a position with Armco Steel. He worked for there for two years. He eventually went into Education which is the field he obtained his College Degree. He taught two and a half years as a fifth grade teacher at Stowe Elementary, the same school the he attended as a child. He was transferred to Northeast Junior High as a Social Studies and Gym teacher. He also coached the varsity basketball team with great success, only losing three games in three years.

In 1969, he received his Master's Degree in Education, with an Administration background from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and became Assistant Principal at Northwest Middle School for the next seventeen and a half years. He loved his students and they loved him. They would call him Mr. Wilson, Daddy, or Uncle Adolph. The next six years were spent at Rosedale Middle School as Assistant Principal. He retired in 1995 after thirty years of service. In 1995, he retired and moved to Okmulgee to a home he built in 1985. He united with Northwest Baptist Church and became a Trustee and remained there until 2005. Shortly after, he united with St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church where he became a faithful member, usher, and trustee. In 2006, he married a lovely lady by the name of Lisa Lewis. They lived a life of happiness together for several years until the morning of August 2, 2013. Adolph was preceded in death by his mother and father, Katherine and Varnell Wilson.

He leaves in God's care: his loving wife Lisa Wilson of the home, three children: Joy Aloise Mooney, Austin, TX., Curtis Adolph Wilson, Jr., Kansas City, KS., and April Lajune Wilson, Arlington, TX., daughter, LaResa Williams (Jarrod) Beggs, OK., three grandchildren: Felicia-Aloise Mooney Frasier, Jaylen Williams, and Jayson Williams, one sister, Norma Helen Rivers (Willie), Oklahoma City, OK., and a host of uncles, two aunts, several nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Services for Mr. Adolph Wilson will be Saturday August 10, 2013 at St. Matthew Baptist Church in Okmulgee, Oklahoma at 11AM. Friends may visit Mr. Wilson as he peacefully rests on Friday from 10AM until 6PM in Okmulgee.