Marilyn Elizabeth Wells

Marilyn Hermanson Wells joined her husband, Richard Marshall Wells in their heavenly home on December 12, 2020. She and Richard moved to Southlake, Texas, in 2013. She was released from the hospital on December 11, to return home with the hopes of watching the Army-Navy game the next day. Lynn passed away prior to the game at age 87 years old. We know she enjoyed Army’s victory later that day, watching with Dad in heaven!
Lynn was born on October 21, 1933, in Mount Vernon, New York. Her parents, John Daniel Hermanson and Margot Linnea Hermanson, emigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1926. Lynn spent her childhood in Mount Vernon and graduated from A.B. Davis High School. Lynn and her parents moved to Colorado Springs in 1952. At Fort Carson, Lynn met and married the love of her life, Lieutenant Richard Wells.
Over the next thirty years, they moved 12 times, which included two separations, when Richard served in Korea and then in Vietnam. Lynn held the family together with good cheer and joy, despite the daily fear of the military sedan appearing with bad news. Lynn loved everywhere they lived, most especially Saudi Arabia and Portland, Oregon. Regardless of where the Army sent them, Lynn’s motto was always, “Bloom where you are planted.” When Major General Richard Wells retired in 1984, they moved to Phoenix, a place they both loved.
Lynn loved to travel throughout the world with Richard. They lived in Germany in the late 1950’s during the coldest years of the Cold War and loved visiting all the sites in Europe they could. Later while living in Saudi Arabia, they traveled to many sites in the Middle East. After Richard retired, they made a one-month trip to China and a three-week photo safari in Kenya and Tanzania.
As an officer’s wife, Lynn was very active in various charities and helped wherever she could. In addition, she was a Cub Scout den mother, Girl Scout leader, Sunday School teacher, church newsletter editor, and the director of Project Angel Tree at Christ Church Lutheran, in Phoenix. Both devout Christians, Lynn and Richard led the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Bible study, Life Light, in their home for nearly thirty years.
Lynn was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Wells in 2015, as well as her parents and two brothers. She is survived by her son, Colonel (Ret) Gordon M. Wells (Ellen), and daughter, Christina Wells-Hildenbrand. She also leaves behind five grandchildren: Katherine Wells Obregon (Alain), LCDR Daniel Richard Hildenbrand (Ali), Natalie Wells Verboom (Royce), Audrey Lynn Wells, and Vivian Jean Wells, as well as ten great grandchildren.
Lynn’s life will be celebrated with an immediate-family-only service at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Denton, and will be inurned with Richard at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in January. In lieu of flowers, donations can be given to either the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ( www.jdrf.org/donate/ ) or The Wounded Warrior Project ( www.woundedwarriorproject.org ).