To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die… Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

Ms. Easter Bell “E” Wilson was the youngest daughter of the late Alfair (Alfear) Wilson and Naomi Retina Brown Wilson. She was also the last survivor of them from this union She was born on January 5, 1943, in Williamsburg County in South Carolina and received her formal education in the public schools of Florence County.

Easter Bell was married by-common-law to Solomon Burgess, Sr. and raised eight children, the oldest: Margie Lee McKenzie (Herbert), preceding her in death, of her seven siblings, all of them preceded her passing, namely, Pearl, Blanche, Theodore, Christine, Samuel, Dinah, and Jay.

On Monday night, August 31, 2026, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, “E” was released from her afflictions and pain. In it, she left behind six daughters: Mary Denora Burgess Trotter (Tony) of Jacksonville, Arkansas; Rosa Lee Arnold (Jonathan) of Seattle, Washington; Caroline Winfield of Georgia; Kim Nickola of Florence, SC; Jen Michelle Braffith of Washington; Tonya Sevelle Burgess (Anthony) of Lake City, SC; and one son: Solomon Burgess Jr. of Washington. Also, mourning this great loss are a host of nieces and nephews, like John Wilson, Neomi Burgess, Rosena Dickens, Bruce Wilson, Jackie Wilson and Priscilla Lawson, plus her eighteen grandchildren who will miss her dearly, and Catherine Singletary of Lake City, SC.