Douglas G. Wilson

His father was Halleck Edward Wilson and his mother was Clarissa May Garlinghouse Wilson. His sister was Virginia Edith Wilson Jennette Kibby, who died at 99 years of age in 2011.

Doug married (Harriett) Marian Wiederhold Wilson, who survives him, in 1941.

They have three children, Holly Ann Wilson Sweet married to John H. Sweet of Cary, North Carolina, Kenneth Charles Wilson married to Karyn E. (Pierson) Wilson of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Marjorie (Maggie) Claire Wilson married to Paul Tierney of Pittsboro, North Carolina.

They have three grandchildren, Andrew Charles Wilson married to Ryan C. (Messer) Wilson of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, John Douglas Sweet of Cary, North Carolina, and Adrianne Melissa Wilson Joergensen of Chicago, Illinois, and two great-grandchildren, Alix Carin Wilson and Meritt Andrew Wilson of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Doug served as a radioman on a U.S. Navy destroyer during the occupation of Japan at the end of WWII.

He worked his way through college as a printer and a precision tool & die maker. After earning his Bachelor of Science and cum laude Master's degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, he had a productive career of 32 years with General Motors as an electronics design engineer that brought him from Detroit, Michigan to Kokomo, Indiana. He held several patents on automotive products, including an early version of cruise control.

He and his family were active in the churches where they lived, including Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan, First Presbyterian Church of Kokomo, Indiana, where Doug served as Deacon and Elder, and Spencer Presbyterian Church of Spencer, Indiana, where he served as Elder and Treasurer. He and his wife were also members of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Cary, North Carolina.

Doug liked to travel and took his family on summer trips around the country, including Yellowstone National Park and the New York World's Fair in 1964. He was quite capable around the house, fixing and building things; he finished the basement in the family home in Detroit, built an addition on the house in Kokomo, as well as refinishing the basement, and with his wife, did much of the interior work on the house they built in Spencer.

His family is grateful for the support and wisdom of the staff of Hospice of Wake County during Doug's last months of life.

Donations may be made to Hospice of Wake County, NC,http://www.hospiceofwake.org/

Arrangements under the direction of Apex Funeral Home, Apex, North Carolina.