March 28, 2024

Wilmina Jennings

Mount Ayr

Wilmina Jennings, 92, of Mount Ayr, formerly of Ellston, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, at Mount Ayr Health Care Center.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at Ellston United Methodist Church. The Rev. Jud Stover will officiate the service. Visitation with family present will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 20 at the church. Memorials may be made to Ellston United Methodist Church, HCI Hospice of Mount Ayr or Mount Ayr Health Care Center. Private burial will be in Grand River Cemetery. Online condolences may be left at www.armstrongfh.com.

Wilmina Mae (Wilkey) Jennings, daughter of Harold Aaron (Jack) Wilkey and Lula Olive (Wagaman) Wilkey, was born Jan. 18, 1925, in Douglas Township in Montgomery County. Wilmina lived in the Ellston and Ringgold County area since about 1939 when her parents moved to a farmstead one mile north of Ellston. In the spring of 1942, after high school graduation, she went to Shenandoah for three years working as a shop girl. Soon, Wilmina moved back to Ellston to marry David Jennings. The young couple lived northeast of Ellston on the Union County line and they have lived within a 10-mile radius of Ellston. She worked alongside David on the farm and was a homemaker. She worked as a nurse aide in various nursing homes in the area. David and Wilmina moved off the farm to Tingley in 2000.

Starting in about 1946, Wilmina has served her community through her church work in Ellston United Methodist Church holding many offices in the local and district United Methodist Women and county offices of the Farm Bureau.

Wilmina is survived by her children, D.A. Jennings (Judy) of Branson West, Missouri, and (Mary) Suzanne Adkisson (Dennis) of Grand River; grandchildren, Julia Hunt (Craig) of Beaverdale, Jeffrey Adkisson (Angie) of Winterset, Lyle David Adkisson (Amber) of Scholfield Barracks, Hawaii, Joel Jennings (Hannah) of San Diego, California, and April Adkisson (Björgvin Gíslason) of Ramstein AFB, Germany; great-grandchildren, Dartanyen, Promyce and Mykailee Adkisson of Winterset, Fjóla Björgvinsdottir, David, Gísli and Björgvin Björgvinsson, Shelby Rae Day, and Emma Jane, Clark David and Lilly Grace Adkisson; brother Jack Wilkey of Ellston and Helen Robbins of Jefferson City, Missouri .

Wilmina was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Sam, Jim, Leonard and Frank; sisters, Baby Rae and Iona Jill and great-grandchild Henry Harrison Hunt, born in December 2011.