Lela Anne Wilson, age 89 of Scottsboro, passed away on February 11, 2026. Funeral services were held on Monday, February 16, 2026 from the Calvary Baptist Church. Dr. Matt Helms, Dr Jody Gamble and Bro. Bradley Edwards officiated.
Mrs. Wilson was survived by her sons, Shane (Susan) Wilson, Kent Wilson, Grant Wilson, and Ronald Lawson; and her grandchildren, Lauren (AJ) Books, Nolan (Olivia) Wilson, Jacob (Jaclyn) Wilson, Averi Wilson, Elizabeth (Daniel) Miller and Mary (Bradley) Edwards; great-grandchildren, Kathryn Wilson, Clara Ashley, Clayton Brooks, Elijah Edwards, Lucy Edwards, Levi Miller, and Emma Marie Miller, as well as several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Wilson was preceded in death by a son, Randy Lawson; her parents, Orban Henry and Berta Simmons; and her brother, Jerry Simmons.
Mrs. Wilson grew up in Navoo, Alabama, and graduated from Carbon Hill High School. After high school, she was working in Birmingham when mutual friends introduced her to Max Wilson, whom she fell in love with at first sight. Lela and Max married in 1963. They loved and supported one another and raised five boys.
Ms. Wilson, later, while working as a school bus driver and raising a family, completed her bachelor’s and subsequently her master’s degree in elementary education.
Combining what she learned in college with her experience managing the chaos of raising a houseful of boys, she became a well-known and dearly loved sixth-grade teacher.
After retiring from teaching, she volunteered as the librarian of Calvary Baptist Church and gave many hours to loving her grandchildren.
Her final moments were spent peacefully in her home in Scottsboro, surrounded by family. She will be remembered for her wit, tenacity, resilience, and most of all her motherly love, which she unselfishly shared
