There will be military services held at the graveside at Mountain View Cemetery before the services conclude. Casper, Wyoming was the location where Mr. Wilson passed away on February 17th, 2024. He was a respected member of the community.
Wayne Eugene Wilson was brought into the world by his parents, Lowell Wilson and Ruby (Teets), who lived in Jewett, Illinois at the time of his birth on October 23, 1932. His grandmother and grandfather raised him on the farm, and his mother supported the family by working at a shoe factory in the town. He was raised by his grandparents. His grandparents were the most important people in his life.
In their 62 years of marriage, Wayne Wilson was a devoted husband to his wife, Audrey A. Wilson. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, was his place of employment for forty years before he decided to retire. Wayne was an extremely active person who enjoyed a wide variety of sports, including fishing, hunting, golf, carving and painting decoys, crafting hunting knives, and growing his own yearly vegetable garden. When Wayne had a vegetable garden, he would put up a table and sell his produce to the people who lived nearby and to people who were walking by. As a result of his enjoyment of interacting with individuals, he would always offer them more than what they had purchased. Instead of focusing on selling veggies, he was more concerned with his ties with other people.
In addition to his wife, Audrey, he is survived by his sisters Brenda Reynolds, Linda Hamilton, Eva Davis and her husband Ray, Mary Nell Onks and her husband Gene, and Katie Wade and her husband Dewey; his brothers Jim Wilson and his wife Diana, and David Wilson and his wife Lou; and his wife, Audrey. During his time as a member of the Wiota Town Board and Fire Department, as well as the President of Argyle Village, Wayne was dedicated to serving his community. Over the course of his nearly three decades of service to his county, he served as a member of the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors, where he was elected to the position of chairman from 1986 to 2000. In addition to that, he was an active member of the Wisconsin Counties Association, where he served in a variety of posts up until the year 2017.
He was sworn into office by Tommy Thompson, who was serving as Governor at the time, after being appointed President of the WCA for the 1997 term. He served his country for a total of 37 years, beginning in 1962 and ending in 1999, as a member of the United States Army Reserves.
During that time, he was stationed in Landstuhl, Germany, under the command of the 44th General Hospital Unit, which was involved in the Desert Storm Operation. On June 28, 1964, Wayne and Marne Halloran tied the knot at West Wiota Lutheran Church, which was located in the rural area of Gratiot, Wisconsin. Madison, Stoughton, Wiota, Argyle, Brookfield, and Wauwatosa were among the places that they called home over the course of their habitation.
They received the valued gift of their daughter Lisa on April 1, 1973, and on August 2, 2003, they got a treasured son-in-law when Craig Blumenthal became Lisa’s husband. Both of these events are considered to be special moments in their lives. When Wayne Blumenthal’s grandson Jack Blumenthal was born on April 2, 2007, he was overjoyed to reach the milestone of becoming a grandfather.
Not only does Wayne leave behind his sisters Carol (Fred) Ruef and Anne (Fred) Bauman, but he also leaves behind his brothers Eldon (Kitty), Gene (Emmy), Kenneth (Pauline), David (Liz), and Steven (Beth) Wilson. In addition, Wayne is survived by his sisters Marne, Lisa, Craig, and Jack. In addition, he is survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, including Shirley, David (Shelley), Edward, and Harry (Amy) Halloran, Julie (Thomas) Jenkins, as well as a large number of nieces and nephews. His mother and father, as well as his in-laws, Ward and Harriet Halloran, as well as his brother Donald Wilson and his sisters Rochelle Gross Backer and Darlene Graham, all passed away before him.
Over the course of his career, Wayne had positions in the following fields: food production on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison; administration as a civilian employee of the United States Army; and milk testing with the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. In addition to being a member of the Argyle Masonic Lodge, he was also a member of the Wiota Lutheran Church, the Argyle American Legion Post, and the Argyle Eastern Star Chapter.
