Services will be 2:00 pm Saturday, April 9, 2022 at Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Joe Bailey officiating. Burial will be at Moore Cemetery in Chalk Bluff. Visitation will be 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday, April 8m 2022 at the funeral home.
Benda was born January 25, 1939 in Belton, Texas to Colonel Woodrow and Sarah Frances "Fannie" (Wood) Wilson. She attended school in Temple, Texas. On March 15, 1957 she married William Ray Easter at the Eastside Baptist Church in Temple. They lived in the Chalk Bluff area for 5 years then moved to Oklahoma where they stayed 12 years. They moved to San Antonio, Texas where she taught Sunday School at Ashley Road Baptist Church for numerous years and took care of many area children whom she considered her own. After 20 years they moved back to Waco where they have been over 32 years. Upon moving back she embarked on her 19 year career at Connelly Elementary working in the cafeteria.
She was preceded in death by her parents; 2 sisters, Anita Kanne and Andria Medlin; and her brothers, George, Woodie and Monty Wilson.
Survivors include her husband of 65 years, William Easter; her daughter, Lisa Mulholland and her husband, Mike, her sons, Calvin Easter and his wife, Deborah, David Easter and his fiance Brandy and Karl Easter; her sister, Nelda Gregg; her brothers, Wesley Wilson and his wife, Jewel and Grady Wilson; 8 grandchildren, Nathan, Corey and Gabrielle Easter, Maxine Gianelloni, Alayne Saltsman, Jessica Lopez, Matthew Easter and Garrett Mulholland; 9 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Pallbearers; Joshua Fritz, Maxine Gianelloni, Robert Hartley, Justin Kanne, Garrett Mulholland, Aiden Webb.