1926 ~ 2024
Wilma Louise (Seeley) Lemcool took her box of chocolates to heaven with the help of Munson Hospice House on Sunday, January 14, 2024: she passed with loved ones by her side after a heart attack. At 97 she said that she had had a great ride and was ready to go see her Dad. Born November 26, 1926, on her Grandparents farm, interrupting her Mother’s Thanksgiving dinner, Wilma lived her entire life in Traverse City.
Wilma’s parents Leone L. (Lannin) Seeley (school teacher) and Clayton Kelly Seeley (Captain of an Ore Carrier on the Great Lakes) raised her to enjoy all that life has to give. While she was growing up piano, accordion, Hawaiian guitar, and dance lessons kept her busy, when she wasn’t reading. She graduated from Traverse City Senior High in 1945, then Central Michigan College in 1949 with a B.S. in Education. She started teaching downstate in Muskegon Heights for two years then back to Traverse City as a member of the TCAPS elementary school family: she greatly enjoyed working with children and putting on the Christmas programs. She was instrumental in helping to start the Traverse City Reading Department where she worked instructing both teachers and children for fifteen years: Wilma retired in 1983.
