Ernest Richard Wilson age 77 of Lynchburg died Sunday, May 1, 2005 at the Blanchester Care Center where he had been a resident since November 1983. . He was born August 5, 1927 in Rainsboro, Ohio the son of the late Sam and Sally VanHook Wilson. He was a former Lynchburg Fire Department volunteer and a Police Officer for the Lynchburg Police Department injured in the line of duty in 1960 causing his early retirement. On July 15, 1954 in Lynchburg, he married Della Shaffer Wilson who survives. He is also survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Diana and Steve Bailey of Lynchburg, Deborah and Jim Cline of Summerton, South Carolina, brother, Willard Wilson of Greenfield, grandchildren, Brent Wilson, Brian Wilson, Stephen Bailey and Seth Bailey, two great granddaughters, Sidney Wilson and Michaela Gilbert and several nieces and nephews. Along with his parents he was preceded in death by sisters, Bessie Carver, Althea Frost, Elsie Elliott, brothers, Claude Wilson, Keller Wilson, Harry Wilson, Wallace Wilson and Edward Parker Wilson. Services will be held 1:00 P.M. Thursday, May 5, 2005 at the Davis-Turner Funeral Home in Lynchburg. Bob Stevens will officiate. Burial will follow in the Lynchburg Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call 7:00 until 9:00 P.M. Wednesday, at the Davis-Turner Funeral Home in Lynchburg. The family requests memorials in his honor to the Blanchester Care Center Patient Activity Center, 839 E. Cherry St., Blanchester, Ohio 45107. For more information or to access our on-line register please visit www.turnerfuneralhomes.cc