Roger T. Wilson ’45

Roger Wilson died Jan. 27, 2009.  

Roger entered Princeton from Exeter, following in the footsteps of his father, Tom 1913, and brother Bruce ’42. At Exeter he excelled in football, basketball, and lacrosse. At Princeton he joined Ivy and played lacrosse and 150-pound football. His studies were interrupted by war service with military government units in France, Belgium, and Germany.  

After his war service, Roger returned to Princeton and received a bachelor’s degree in 1947. He then moved to Binghamton, N.Y., and joined Binghamton Container Corp., where he worked for four decades.  

Roger retired in 1987 and went to Green Valley, Ariz., where he and his wife, Moya, spent the rest of their lives. His return to Arizona was natural, since the extended Wilson family had been ranchers in Oracle, just north of Tucson. Their ranch, Rancho Linda Vista, was the locale for Harold Bell Wright’s classic western novel, The Mine with the Iron Door.  

The class expresses its sympathy to Moya and the family.