John Bernhardt Wilson Jr. ’54

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John Bernhardt Wilson of Charlotte, N.C., died at his family home Aug. 27, 2004, after a long illness.

John was born in Lenoir, N.C. He prepared for Princeton at the Woodberry Forest School. He was a history major and a member of Cottage Club, and played varsity baseball and football. After Princeton, he graduated from Harvard Business School and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va.

During his professional life, he worked as a minister, a college professor, and a businessman. He was an avid outdoorsman and spent much of his retirement in the North Carolina mountains, Edisto Island, and the Florida Everglades.

The class extends its sympathy to his wife, Lee; his children, Katherine Wilson Singleton, Dorothy Wilson Chappell, and John Bernhardt Wilson Jr.; six grandchildren; seven stepchildren; 15 step-grandchildren; and his brother, James Douglas Wilson.

The Class of 1954

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