Born: April 3, 1915
Died: February 9, 1996
Married: Lucele Hatch
Orville G. Wilson served as an enlisted officer in World War I veteran in which he operated a wireless telegraph.
He was born in Chazy. He appears in the 1930 census as a resident of Saranac Lake, age 14, a son of Wayne C. and Mattie M. Wilson of Saranac Lake.
Rev. and Mrs. Wilson were invited by the Board of Global Ministries (formerly the Board of Missions) [apparently Methodist] to become members of the traveling ministry of the Department of Finance and Field Service in 1966. The couple became "traveling missionaries" in 1967 and worked through 36 states, including Alaska. They retired from the ministry in 1981, and settled in St. Petersburg, Florida.
