LINCOLNTON, GA. - Mrs. Doris Mae Edmunds Wells, 86, of 166 Lincoln Ave. Apt. 225 entered into rest at the residence on Thursday, April 17, 2008 after an extended illness. Mrs. Wells was born on July 21, 1921, and was the daughter of William Clay Edmunds and Ester Mae Cunningham Edmunds. She married Will Joe Wells on January 24, 1942 in McCormick, S.C. and they were married for 51 years before his death on May 19, 1993. Mrs. Wells was a lifelong resident resident of Lincolnton and a graduate of Lincolnton High School in 1940. She was a homemaker and a member of New Hope Baptist Church. Mrs. Wells was also preceded in death by her brothers, James Paul Edmunds and Sidney Clay Edmunds; and her sisters, Frances Edmunds Burton and Mary Edmunds Burch. Survivors include a daughter, Donna Wells Mixon of Lincolnton; two sons, Joe Racy Wells and wife, Judith of Lincolnton and Edmunds Seymour Wells and wife, Fran of Athens, Ga.; two brothers, William Henry Edmunds and Robert Allen Edmunds, both of Lincolnton; four grandchildren, Walden Racy Wells of Eatonton, Ga., Rachel Adelyn Wells Sasser and husband, Jon of Evans, Ga., Clayton Branch Bolton and wife, Ann of Columbia, S.C. and Anne Marie Wells Esslinger and husband, Greg of Atlanta, Ga.; seven great-grandchildren, Jonathan Adam Sasser, Aubrey Judith Sasser, Sydney Holland Sasser of Evans, Ga., Fowler Branch Bolton and Addison Wells Bolton of Columbia, S.C. Mary Crawford Esslinger and Davis Jeffery Esslinger of Atlanta, Ga. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19, 2008 at New Hope Baptist Church with Rev. Lanis Lewis, Rev. Terry Bonds and Rev. Tom Kalliokoski officiating. Interment will follow in church cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Walden Racy Wells, Clayton Branch Bolton, Adam Sasser, Fowler Bolton, Jonathan Alan Sasser, Gregory Esslinger, Bobby Edmunds, Dale Edmunds and Wellington Burch. Serving as honorary pallbearers were Bobby Rachels, Jr., Charles Wurst, Murray Norman, John Ludwig, David Haynes, Jim Chatham, W.F. Truitt and Gene Thornton, Jr. You may sign the family's online guest book at www.rees-funeralhome.com. Rees Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.