Catherine Lucille Wilson, ChE 67, of Hampstead, N.C., on July 23, 2024. She was a beloved mother, grandmother and sister. Born to Edwin J. and Catherine S. Wilson on September 24, 1944, in Birmingham, Ala. Her family later relocated to Marietta, Ga., where most of her childhood was spent. Wilson went on to attend Georgia Tech. She was “a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a Helluva Engineer.” She earned a Chemical Engineering Degree in 1966. She was one of nine female graduates out of a class of 911, less than one percent.
After college, she moved to Lynchburg, Va., to accept a job with Babcock and Wilcox, where she designed nuclear reactors. She raised her family there. In later life she lived with her son and family in Hampstead, N.C. She is survived by her two children, Michael Lee Jones (wife Denise Thomas Jones) and Wendy Jones Wright, six grandchildren, her brother Edwin (Bud) Wilson, and her sister Terrie Wilson Taylor (husband Wilson Taylor). She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Janet Wilson Sealer.