Jerry Wilson, 78, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away at his home on Monday, March 25, 2025. Funeral service to honor Jerry will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 29, 2025, at Dorman Funeral Home. Rite of Committal and Interment will immediately follow, at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park, in Orange, Texas. A visitation of family and friends will be held prior to services on Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM, at Dorman Funeral Home.
On Monday, August 5, 1946, Jerry was born to Lorine (Henry) Wilson and Alvin Wilson, in Orange, Texas. Before JW was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, his childhood was filled with excitement on the bayou with his best friend, Rusty, the German shepherd. Life on the bayou consisted of bringing home pet alligators. As a young man JW began work at the Livingston Shipyard and retired from a lifelong career at DuPont, as an instrument tech, where he made many lifelong friends. His hobbies were enjoyed alone and alongside all his family: reading, woodworking, gardening and fishing, coin collecting, and feeding anyone who would eat. JW was a loving, determined, and hard headed problem solver, who met a friend in everyone, who had the privilege to know him.
Jerry is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Rose Bell Wilson; parents, Alvin and Lorine Wilson; sister, Annabel Wilson Wheatley; and sister-in-law, Wanda Jean Wilson.
Those left to cherish Jerry’s memory are his daughter, Tammy Lorine Temple and husband, Richard Darron Temple; brother, Alfred Wilson; grandson, Kory Darron Temple and wife, Kimberly Temple; granddaughter, Kearsten Ashley Jones and husband, Clayton Jones; great-grandbabies, Darron Jacob Jones and Alison Roseileen Jones; niece, Melody Guidry; and numerous members of extended family, and friends.
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