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Wilma Lee Bos was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Mary Alice and William Thomas Simms on February 10, 1929 and went home to the Lord on July 13, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. In 1936 at the age of 7, the severe time of the Oklahoma Dustbowl was instrumental in her family moving to California, first to San Diego before settling in Fresno. Wilma was a 1947 graduate of Fresno Technical High School. Since her youth she was an avid reader and writer. At the age of 17 she entered a poem she wrote entitled “Snow” to Readers Digest and won their national anthology contest. Wilma continued to write and journal over the years and scrapbooked her writings before it was a “trend”. In high school she played volleyball and excelled in track and field in the standing broad jump. When not on the track, Wilma enjoyed needlepoint and cross stitch, her family uses the linens to this day, ice skating and activities with her youth group through her church. It is where she met and married Samuel Everett Phillips II, introduced by her girlfriend, also named Wilma and Everett’s sister. In 1957 they built their home in Sunnyside that Wilma designed and raised their three children, Sam, Michele and John. Many weddings and celebrations have been hosted there and it is still called home to this day. Wilma enjoyed a long career in medical office management starting in pediatrics for Dr. Lusk, the OBGYN practice of Freeburg, Nix and Maly and on to manage the practice of Dr. Edward Moss and before retirement Dr’s Tashjian and Simjee Dermatology. In her “spare” time she also managed the accounting for local Clovis businesses, Clovis Floral and McFarlane and McFarlane farming operation. Wilma was also known to balance her many girlfriend’s checkbooks and very efficient with a typewriter coupled with her entrepreneurial spirit, would type college thesis’ for a nickel a page. Wilma had the wonderful blessing in meeting the great love of her life, Richard J. Bos. They were engaged during an Englebert Humperdinck concert and married in 1978 in the yard of Grace and Dan Shamp surrounded by their families and many friends through First Presbyterian Church. Dick and Wilma were members of First Presbyterian Church, Bulldog Foundation where they were avid Bulldog fans, hosting many elegant tailgate gatherings and Red Seat holders for over 30 years. Their mutual love of the ocean brought them much enjoyment as they spent their time in Rio Del Mar and sailed on over 25 cruises together, with friends and family. They were Diamond Pin Holders with Royal Caribbean and Captain’s Circle members with Princess and Crystal Cruise lines. Wilma was very proud of her large and extended family. She was a remarkable wife, mother, grandmother, loving friend to many and a good and faithful servant to Jesus. She instilled the message of salvation to her children at an early age. She will be dearly missed, yet we all rejoice knowing she and Papa are reunited in Heaven. In addition to her parents and her loving husband Richard, Wilma was pre-deceased by her brother Billy at the age of 4 and her sister Kay Pierre. She is survived by her sister Denne Green; Richard and Wilma’s children and their spouses; Major Sam E. Phillips III USAF (Ret.) and Sharon Phillips, Michele and Bruce Loewen, John and Patty Phillips, Jeanne Jorgensen, Patty and John Murray, Barbara Bos. Grandchildren and their spouses; Samuel IV and Charis Phillips, David and Krystal Phillips, Jennifer Ahl, Christopher and Meg Prince, Lauren Phillips, Phillip and Jennifer Ferguson, Sheree Robertson, Kelley Murray, John and Laura Murray, Katie Murray, Aaron Jorgensen, Matthew and Sarah Jorgensen. Great Grandchildren; Lucas, Evey, Grace, Sammy V, Julian, Elliott, Miles, Jack, Isabella, John-John, Cole, Cary, Majerle and Shayna. Visitation will be held at Chapel of the Light Funeral Home on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held at Chapel of the Light on Thursday July 19, 2018 at 11:00 am. Entombment will follow at Chapel of the light in the Garden of Love Mausoleum. A luncheon celebrating Wilma’s life will be hosted following the services at Shepherd’s Inn downtown Fresno. A very special thank you to the St Agnes Hospice team for the extraordinary care, comfort and support they provided our mom and her family. Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church of Fresno or the Fresno Rescue Mission

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Wilma L. Bos

February 10, 1929 - July 13, 2018