Wanda T. Wiseman. It is with thanks and thanksgiving to a merciful Father that we share with you the news of the death and the life everlasting of Wanda T. Wiseman on Tuesday, August 15, 1995. Wanda was the oldest child of the late Hubert E. and Pearl S. Lilly, born March 10, 1914, in Beckley, where she resided and worked for most of her life. She is survived by her brother, Paul R. Lilly and his wife Hazel of Phoenix, Arizona; her sister, Jule L. Thompson, a resident of Pine Lodge Nursing Home in Beckley; her son, John B. Thackston and his wife Dr. Cheryl D. Thackston of Boston; and Jennifer Anne Thackston of Charleston, South Carolina; three sisters-in-laws, Elizabeth “Peg” Egar of Phoenix, Nancy Wiseman of Fayetteville, and Francis Herring of Rocky Mount, North Carolina; her former daughter in-law, Judith Diane McKay of Atlanta; Cannibal, a loving and devoted whippet who was her faithful companion these last two years; and several thousand men and women who learned and shared her love of the written and spoken word as they passed through her English classroom for nearly forty years. Wanda graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1931 and Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, four years later. She met and married her first husband, Tom Thackston while both were doing graduate work at Duke University in 1936 and both taught together at Stoco High School until Tom’s death in 1946. That fall, she began a thirty year teaching career at Woodrow Wilson, where she also taught with and married the late C. Lawrence “Preach” Wiseman who died October 15, 1993. She was a life long member of the First Christian Church in Beckley and devoted much of her retirement time working with the church library when not spending time with her grandchildren. During the past two years of failing health she lived with John and Susan in Atlanta where she attended the Kirk of the Corners First Christian Church and continued to pursue her love of books, plays, music and dining out. She also managed to include the first of several commercial airline flights and a return to the Outer Banks with her grandchildren after a forty year absence. She suffered her last and fatal heart attack while attending her 60th class reunion at Lynchburg College in April of this year where she renewed many college day friendships that had remained dormant but not forgotten for more than half a century. Final arrangements are not yet complete but there will be a memorial service in Beckley at the First Christian Church mid-September followed by a committal service for family members. Those wishing to remember Wanda should make donations to the Beckley Area Foundation for the Woodrow Wilson High School Scholarship Fund, 1050 Overlook Drive, Beckley, 25801. We will mourn our loss, we will miss her but she will not soon be forgotten and her passing through this life will be felt for generations to come.