James Wilson Wingard

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Posted by: bottomsgardenchapel
Date: Jun 07 2016 4:39 PM

James Wilson Wingard, 67, returned to his heavenly home on Monday, June 6, 2016 after a valiant battle. His devotion to his family and his firm belief in God supported him in his sickness and ultimately gave him peace.

 

Funeral services will be held at 5pm Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at Bottoms Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Geneva with Bro. David Holt and Rev. Robert Hamilton officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in Rhodes Community Cemetery under the direction of Jimmy Bottoms of Bottoms Garden Chapel Funeral Home. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the services at the funeral home.

 

The family gratefully appreciates flowers and donations, prayers condolences and memories.

 

James was born to the late Clifton and Edna Wingard, a World War II veteran and homemaker respectively, in Kinston, AL on November 4, 1948. He was immersed in the work of the Lord as a pastor and minister for 39 years. He pastored several churches. He was an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God. He was a proud Vietnam Veteran. James was blessed with a large and loving family. He married his best friend Hilda Messer Wingard on January 23, 1971 in Opp, AL. James helped raise his three children with patience, discipline and humility. He took them on long family trips to see natural beauty of God’s Creation. He dedicated his children to God and encouraged them to explore the beauty of the gospels. James was an outdoorsman at heart. He was kind and always had time to answer a question, no matter how small. He is dearly missed by his loved ones, who celebrate the fact that he is at peace with his creator.

 

In addition to his parents, he is also preceded in death by two brothers, Jerry and John Mark Wingard.

 

He is survived by his wife, Hilda Messer Wingard; his daughter, Yolanda Wingard Forehand; his son, James Michael Wingard; his daughter, Shannon Kilpatrick and her husband Lee Kilpatrick; his grandchildren, Allie Kinman and her husband Bradley Kinman, Dalton Wingard, Amalee Forehand, Ethan, Evin, and Bethany Kilpatrick; his great-granddaughter, Brayley Kinman.

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