George Mickle Wilson ’45

George died Feb. 18, 2021. He was born in Karuizawa, Japan, and grew up in Texas, California, and New Jersey, where he attended Westfield High School.

At Princeton he played freshman tennis and was a member of Dial Lodge. During World War II he joined the Navy, then transferred to the Marine Air Corps Operational Training Command, where he was a twin-engine operational flight-training instructor (first lieutenant). 

After the war he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English. He earned master’s degrees in divinity and in sacred theology from Union Theological Seminary. He pastored at churches in Thailand; Greece; Palo Alto, Calif.; Bend, Ore.; and Louisville, Ky., where he met and married Betty Ann Williams.

He brought six children to the marriage, and she two. He continued to serve the church in Los Angeles and Carmel Valley, Calif., including consultation on institutional lifestyle change for the Presbyterian Church. He also served as a mediator for conflict resolution and volunteered at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

He is survived by his wife, Betty Ann; children and partners Mike and Lori Wilson, David Wilson and Judy Simons, John and Nancy Wilson, Martha and Bill Blackmore, Dan Wilson, Theodore C. Wilson ’71 and Ellen Tappon, Ben and Heather Williams, and Don and Pam Williams; and many extended family members.