Mrs. Wanda Jean “Hysaw” Malcom passed away peacefully on August 2nd, 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the age of 73. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, August 11, at Pecan Grove Funeral Home, 3124 Robinson Drive, Waco. Burial will follow at Waco Memorial Park. The family will receive visitors from 6 – 8:00 p.m., Friday, August 10, at the funeral home.
Wanda was born on April 24th 1945 in Axtell, Texas to Joe and Vernice Hysaw. She graduated from Axtell High School. She married Watson Malcom, in 1962. After moving to Garland, Texas Wanda started a day care business that she ran until her retirement in 2010.
Wanda is survived by her daughter Tanna Louise “Malcom” Skinner of Fountain, Colorado; son Phillip Danial Martin “Chip” of Paris, Texas; grandson James Dylan Skinner of Fountain, Colorado; grandson Private First Class Caleb Andrew Skinner of Ft. Bliss, Texas; and great-grandsons, James Noah Skinner and Casey Raleigh Skinner of Fountain, Colorado; and Maxwell Charles Boyd-Martin, of Paris, Texas. Wanda was preceded in death by her parents Joe Hysaw and Vernice “Mullens” Hysaw of Axtell, Texas and her husband Watson Ellis Malcom Jr. of Paris Texas.