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- The Madison Courier (IN)
December 24, 2020
Florence M. Smith Wilson Haskell, 98, of Vevay, Indiana, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, at the Swiss Villa Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Vevay.
She was born April 20, 1922, in Switzerland County, Indiana, to Albert Uley and Alice Copeland Smith. She was raised and attended school there and married Woodrow Wilson on May 22, 1939. She was widowed on April 1, 1978, and later married Herbert Ward "Hosey" Haskell on Aug. 6, 1994. She was a former employee for the US Shoe Factory in Vevay for 30 years and later was a chef for the Ogle Haus for four years and cook for Swiss Villa Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for eight years. She was a former member of the Hope Rebekah Lodge No. 851 of Bennington, Indiana, and the Center Square Home Economics Club. She was a member of the Mt. Sterling Baptist Church in Mt. Sterling, Indiana.
Survivors include her daughter, Mary Katherine Ray of Vevay; a brother, Roy Lee Smith of Canaan, Indiana; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 39 years, Woodrow Wilson and husband of six years, Herbert Ward "Hosey" Haskell; her sons, Charles "Shorty" Wilson and Marion Wilson; five brothers, Robert P. Smith, Morgan Smith, Raymond Smith, James E. Smith and Lawrence Smith; and three sisters, Lottie Webster, Jannetta McComas, and Martha Jean "Jeannie" Wentworth.
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