WILLIAM ERWIN WILSON

HIS JOURNEY 
WILLIAM ERWIN WILSON OF RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. FORMERLY OF HOLLOWAY DRIVE, KINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THE BELOVED SON OF THE LATE DEACON PINK JUNIOR WILSON AND THE LATE MRS. JOHNNIE MAE EDWARDS WILSON WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 26, 1960, IN SNOW HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. THE EIGHTH CHILD OF NINE CHILDREN. 
ERWIN, AS HE WAS CALLED BY HIS PARENTS, SIBLINGS, AND OTHER RELATIVES, WAS RAISED IN CHRISTIAN HOME BY HIS PARENTS. HE ATTENDED HIS MOTHER'S CHURCH, ROUSE CHAPEL FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH, GREENE COUNTY, AND HIS FATHER'S CHURCH 
ZION HILL FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH, PITT COUNTY. BOTH CHURCHES WERE PASTORED BY THE LATE REVI.I.W. L. HARRIS. LATER IN HIS YEARS JOINED AND WAS BAPTIZED AT GROVE PARK CHRISTIAN CHURCH BY REV. C. L. SUTTON, THE CHURCH WAS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE FAMILY HOME. 
ERWIN WAS EDUCATED IN KINSTON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND GRADUATED FROM KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL IN JUNE 1979. HE FURTHERS HIS EDUCATION AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, N.C. 
HIS BELOVED WIFE, MARTHA, AFFECTIONATELY CALLS HIM "WILL. " HE WAS A AUTO MECHANIC BY TRADE. HIS PROFESSIONAL WORK WAS IN THE THE HOTELS INDUSTRY. HE LOVED TO COOK ON THE GRILL. 
WILLIAM ERWIN WILSON ANSWERED THE CALLING OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER ON SUNDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 23, 2022, AT HIS HOME IN RALEIGH, NC. 
HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES OF HIS BELOVED WIFE OF 30 YEARS 
MARTHA DANIELS WILSON; TWO DEVOTED CHILDREN BRANDY AND 
JOSEPH AND HIS WIFE ALICIA. THREE BEAUTIFUL GRANDDAUGHTERS 
THREE SISTERS: MARJORIE BYNUM BRYANT & HER HUSBAND GRADY':'SR.; THERESA WILSON FULTON & HER HUSBmID CLARENCE AND BRENDA KAYE WILSON. TWO BROTHERS: PRESTON A. WILSON AND DOUGLAS B. WILSON; 1 AUNT: LENORA WILSON BULLOCK AND HER HUSBAND MARK. NEPHEWS, NIECES, MANY COUSINS, OTHER RELATIVES 
AND FRIENDS.