Events
Birth: 1908-05-17y0m0d, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha county, South Dakota, ImageID: S__0538,S__0242
Census: 1910 , Age:1y7m15d, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha county, South Dakota, Role:census federal, Yvonne age almost 2 born SD, ImageID: S__0254
Education: 1920-1922, Age:11y7m15d, Norwood, Hamil county, Ohio, Role:student, high
Census: 1920 , Age:11y7m15d, Mitchell, Davison county, South Dakota, Role:census federal, Living with her parents is Yvonne J. age 11 born South Dakota, ImageID: S__0197
Education: 1921 , Age:12y7m15d, Norwood, Hamil county, Ohio, Role:student, elementary, ImageID: S__0056
Letter-written: 1922-09-29, Age:14y4m12d, Role:writer, ImageID: S__0080
Education: 1923-1925, Age:14y7m15d, Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, Central High School, Role:student, high, She was a member of the Philomanthian Literary Club, a member of the Pieria Literary society in grade school, and first violinist in her school's orchestra
Married: 1930-01-01, Age:21y7m15d, Le Mars, Plymouth county, Iowa, Role:bride, Witnesses to the marriage of Edwin and Yvonne were the bride's father Burton and sister Arlene., ImageID: W__0111,W__0340
Census: 1930 , Age:21y7m15d, Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, Role:census federal, Yvonne Wilson age 21 born SD artist at photo gallery. Curious that Yvonne is married yet is living with her parents intead of with her husband., ImageID: S__0255
Census: 1940 , Age:31y7m15d, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, Role:census federal, Yvonne age 31 mother of two, ImageID: W__0502
Census: 1950 , Age:41y7m15d, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, Role:census federal, 1950 census for Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri with Edwin Wilson age 54 born Missouri occupation manager of mineral water springs system, Yvonne S. age 41 born South Dakota, Paul D. age 14 born Missouri, occupation newspaperdelivery. This family lived at 112 Cypress St., ImageID: W__0503
Death: 1990-05-22, Age:82y0m5d, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, Excelsior Springs Hospital, Her death certificate gives her birthdate as May 17, 1908 and her social security number as 493-22-6204. It said she died of natural causes., ImageID: WS_0042
Obit: 1990-05-22, Age:82y0m5d, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, The Daily Standard, ImageID: WS_0584
Burial: 1990-05-24, Age:82y0m7d, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, Crownhill Cemetery, Official:Dr. Lee Felsburg, Masonic section, ImageID: W__0583
Church: Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, Barbee Memorial Presbyterian Church
Education: ?, Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa, Morningside College, Role:student, college, While attending Morningside College, located just north of Sioux City, the smallpox epidemic hit. All students were required to be immunized before they were allowed to return to classes. Yvonne's father, who did did not believe in such medicines, at first refused to let his daughter get the vaccine, though he later gave in. But by then the eggs in Yvonne's lab experiment in her embryology had died. So she decided to go to business school. The school yearbook for 1928, page 180, lists the members of the Pieria Literary Society. Among the sophomores is Yvonne Searls., ImageID: S__0258

Yvonne was an artist. She played the violin, organ and piano and also sang.

In 1929, while Edwin "E.L." Wilson was in Sioux City to set up a new store for Cook Paint, he met a local resident, Burton Searls. Burton would stop by to visit E.L. and ask him questions about his business. Once while they were talking, E.L. mentioned that he was looking for an artist to do the advertising for the new store. Burton told E.L. that he had just the right person for the job. Burton immediately telephoned Yvonne, who was home making grape juice as she was working for the 
California Fruit Growers Exchange. Burton told her to drop what she was doing and come down there for an interview. She did and got the job. Three months later she and E.L. were married. A few months later, while visiting Excelsior Springs (Clay) Missouri to set up yet another new Cook Paint store, E.L. and Yvonne decided that that is where they wanted to settle. So on May 16, 1930 they moved there and soon started their own paint store. They owned and operated this store until 1966. 
Yvonne was a resident of Excelsior Springs for nearly sixty years. This made her one of the city's longest residents.