Francis (John) Wilson, age 96, passed away at his residence on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n
Born on November 15, 1925 to George and Alice in McKeesport, PA.\u00a0 George and Alice were immigrants from New Castle, ENG. He grew up in McKeesport with his brother, Robert (Bob).\u00a0 He graduated from McKeesport High School along with Lois Patterson who he had known since he was 10.<\/p>\n
Following graduation, he enlisted in the Navy and spent WWII on the Aircraft Carrier U.S. Sitkohbay.\u00a0 After the war he attended Bradley University and graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture.\u00a0 While in college in 1950 he and Lois Patterson were married in McKeesport at the Beulah Park Methodist Church.\u00a0 In 1957, they had a son, Scott.\u00a0 Francis started and ran Wilson-Haney and Associates with Wayne Haney.\u00a0 They built many churches, schools, businesses, apartments, fire stations and municipal buildings in Kenosha and throughout Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Francis was brought up as an Episcopalian and was a member of St. Matthew\u2019s in Kenosha.\u00a0 He attended First United Methodist Church weekly with Lois.\u00a0 He was in Jaycee\u2019s and was a founding member and past president of Rotary West as well as a Paul Harris Fellow.\u00a0 He was a member of the Elks Club and after it closed, he continued the tradition of having lunch with the guys up until the last couple of years.\u00a0 Throughout his life he created Art through drawings, paintings, wood carving, stain glass, sculpture and other techniques.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his loving wife, Lois and his son, Scott (Nina) Wilson.<\/p>\n
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Bob and his sister-in-law, Evelyn.<\/p>\n
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Funeral services honoring Francis\u2019s life will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at First United Methodist Church, 919- 60th<\/sup> Street, Kenosha.<\/p>\n El entierro tendr\u00e1 lugar en el cementerio de Green Ridge.<\/p>\n A visitation will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Piasecki Funeral Home and on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 from 10:30 a.m. until the time of the service at the church.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francis (John) Wilson, age 96, passed away at his residence on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 surrounded by his family. Born on November 15, 1925 to George and Alice in McKeesport, PA.\u00a0 George and Alice were immigrants from New Castle, ENG. He grew up in McKeesport<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service-location":[],"class_list":["post-11905","obituary","type-obituary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary\/11905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituary"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-location?post=11905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}