Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Wilma S. Ford will be held on Monday, April 30th at 9am at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. Memorial donations may be directed to Children's Place, Inc. 310 Barnwell Ave. NE Aiken, SC 29801. George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Aiken, SC, is assisting the Ford family. Mrs. Ford, 88, of Hendersonville, TN, died on March 6, 2007 at Select Specialty Hospital in Augusta, GA. A daughter of the late Morris A. and Myrtle Schindler Sandberg, she was born in Bushnell, NE. Wilma moved from Banner County, NE, from a job in the local Farm Bureau to take a position with the Department of Agriculture in Washington DC in November of 1941. Pearl Harbor was bombed one month later and, even though her parents asked her to return home, she persisted, telling the family in Nebraska that the Federal Government had 'frozen' all personnel in place to support the war effort. After the war she worked for the Department of Education and met a "sailor", Maurice E. Ford LTCD-Ret., who she married on October 29, 1948. She became a homemaker in 1950 and raised two sons, returning to work in 1968 as a personnel specialist with the National Park Service, National Capital Parks. She retired from the Park Service and the Federal Government in 1984 and enjoyed a long retirement. In recent years she had moved from Oxon Hill, MD, to Hendersonville, TN. She was a long-time member of First Baptist Church in Washington and attended the First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, Tennessee. Wilma is survived by her sons and their families--Richard L. Ford and Peggy, of Aiken, SC, and their son Thomas; and Gene S. Ford and Kimberly, of Brentwood, TN, and their daughter Sarah, her husband Joe Moore and their child and Wilma's great-grandchild, Maddox Bryson Moore; sisters Avis Broadhead of Kearney, NE, and Myrt Hughbanks Tucker of Scottsbluff, NE; brothers Duane Sandberg Verla of Hay Springs, NE, and Roy Sandberg Donna of Aurora, CO; many nieces and nephews; and close friends across the country. She was preceded in death by her husband Maurice, an infant sister, Loree, and a brother, Larry Sandberg of Gering, NE.