Scott Leslie Wilson Of Wainscott Dies May 18

Scott Leslie Wilson of Wainscott died on May 18 from complications of leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He had been battling cancer for more than three years. He was 64.

Mr. Wilson was the founding owner of Scott L. Wilson Landscaping, a company he created after graduating from the Farmingdale State College horticultural program. He said he began with a rake and an old truck; expanding it into a thriving business now run by his daughter Nikki and her husband Nathan Osborn.

Mr. Wilson was born at Southampton Hospital on November 8, 1956, the son of Betty Baxter and Leslie Wilson. He attended the one-room schoolhouse in Wainscott, while Edith Mansir was teaching, continuing on and graduating from East Hampton High School, followed by a short stint in the U.S. Navy.

Mr. Wilson was an avid outdoorsman. His fishing parties on the “Sea Monster” were joyous events, his family said, sailing out to the canyon for deep sea fishing. He was a marksman with not only a hunting rifle but also as a bow. He and the Wainscott locals could be heard shooting from the Wainscott Pond duck blind on early fall mornings.

Leaving the stress of maintaining estate properties, he spent many winters in Nosara, Costa Rica, surfing every day he wasn’t fishing, usually surrounded by his posse of East End Bubbies.

Mr. Wilson raised his two children Nikki and Will as a single parent. He was a big- hearted man who received great joy from sharing what he had with others. There was always fish, fowl or venison in the freezer for the asking.

Mr. Wilson is survived by his two children, Nikki Wilson and Will Wilson, both of Wainscott; his granddaughter Charlotte Osborn and step-granddaughters Meadow and Lila Osborn; son-in-law Nathan Osborn; brother Gary Wilson of Sag Harbor; sister Barbara D’Andrea of Wainscott; niece Becky Guyer of Sag Harbor; nephews Jay Wilson of Sag Harbor and Liam Turner of Malverne, New York; and the loyal crew that has worked for him for many years.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. in the Wainscott Cemetery on June 13.

Memorial donations may be made to the Wainscott Sewing Society (for the Wainscott Chapel), P.O. Box 273, Wainscott, N.Y. 11975.