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Christopher Prescott Wilson of Aiken, South Carolina, and Cabot, Vermont, and formerly of Southampton, died on January 9 at a hospital in Augusta, Georgia. He was 84.
Born July 11, 1930, in Oceanside, he grew up in Baldwin, the son of the Reverend C. Merton and Katherine Wilson. He graduated from Dartmouth College, earned a master’s degree from Columbia University, and served for 11 years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Reserves. A well-known member of the Southampton community, he was director of the guidance department at Southampton High School from 1962 to 1988, and an active parishioner of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he served on the vestry.
Mr. Wilson loved to play baseball as a boy, was a talented wrestler in high school, and was an excellent skier and avid sailor. Experienced in home construction, he was very active with Habitat for Humanity on eastern Long Island. He very much enjoyed living by the bays and ocean on Long Island and the lakes and mountains of Vermont. He particularly enjoyed diving for scallops in Cold Spring Pond and sailing on Shinnecock Bay.
He is survived by Dorothy, his wife of 52 years; three children, Jeffrey and wife Avery of Colorado, Craig and wife Connie of Pennsylvania, and Robin and husband George Phillips of Iowa; and grandchildren, Eric Wilson and wife Lindsey, Natalie Wilson, Emily Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Katherine Wilson, Carter Phillips, Kelsey Phillips and Allison Phillips. He is also survived by a sister, Nancy Forsyth and husband Robert of Washington, sisters-in-law, Shirley Wilson and Bonnie Wilson of California; a brother-in-law, David Kelsey and wife Julie of Connecticut; and many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by a sister, Lucinda and husband Robert Burgess; and two brothers, M. Carr Wilson and Allan Wilson.
A memorial service will be held at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church in Aiken on January 17 at 2 p.m.
Memorial donations may be made to Habitat for Humanity of Peconic, P.O. Box 2006, Bridgehampton, NY 11932, or Golden Harvest Food Bank, 13 Enterprise Avenue, Aiken, SC 29803.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Shellhouse Funeral Home in Aiken. Online condolences may be left at www.shellhousefuneralhome.com.
on Jan 12, 2015