Joan Marie Dent

Services: A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 11:00AM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Dan Moore officiating. Interment will follow in Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD. Visitation: The family will receive friends on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD. Joan Marie Wilson Dent, 83, Myrtle Beach, S.C.Joan Marie Wilson Dent, 83, of Myrtle Beach S.C., formerly of Lexington Park, died Dec. 6, 2012, in Myrtle Beach. She was the daughter of the late John Pleasant Wilson Sr. and the late Hazel Ransom Wilson. Mrs. Dent was a homemaker. She was a member of Callaway Baptist Church, Callaway, where she was very active in the outreach and missions programs. While in South Carolina she was a member of Glenns Bay Baptist Church, Surfside Beach. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer Francis Dent Sr.; brother, John Pleasant Wilson Jr.; daughter, Francine Dent Deinlein; granddaughter, Patricia; and grandsons, Herbie and James. She is survived by her children, Elmer Francis Dent Jr. of Providence, R.I.; Catherine Dent Behanna of Myrtle Beach, John Theodore Dent of Great Mills, Teresa Dent Gibson of Conway, S.C. and Cora Irene Dent Hart of Pueblo, Colo.; 17 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A service will be held Dec. 11 at 11:00 AM in the Mattingley Gardiner Funeral Home, Chapel of Remembrance, Leonardtown , MD. Interment will follow at Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD.