WILSON, Roger C. 1912-1988

WILSON, AHRENS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/30/2009 at 12:26:25

Roger C. Wilson

Funeral services were held Monday, October 17, 1988 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, for Roger C. Wilson, age 76, of Dayton, Ohio. The Rev. Roger R. Hubbard of Trinity Lutheran Church, Osage, officiated and burial was in Calvary Cemetery, rural osage.

Mr. Wilson died Tuesday, October 11, 1988 at Bethany Lutheran Village in Dayton, Ohio, of natural causes.

Mr. Wilson was married to former Osage resident Lucille [Christine] Ahrens on August 9, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. They lived in Los Angeles, Calif. and Dayton, Ohio where he was employed as a musician and composer by Lorenz Publishing Co. Mr. Wilson was retired at the time of his death.

Preceding him in death were his parents, and his wife, in 1980.

Survivors include two sones, Thomas A. of East Tawas, Michigan, and Robert B. of Montvale, New Jersey, and three grandchildren.

MITCHELL COUNTY PRESS, 1988

[NOTES: His middle name was Cole. He was born 25 APR 1912.]

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

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Wilson, Roger C, composer, ar­ranger, director; b. Dayton, Ohio, April 25, 1912. ASCAP 1949. Educ.: Univ. of So. California; private study with father, Ira B. Wilson, and others. Free-lance composing and arranging, Los Angeles, 1932-38. Associate editor, music publishing house from 1938 to present. World War II, A.U.S. Infantry 1944-46. Editor of: The Organist, 1940-50, The Choir Herald since 1946; The Volunteer Choir since 1950; contributing editor of The Choir Leader; The Organ Portfolio and The Quarterly Anthem Folio. Works: choir cantatas, two school operettas, anthems, choral music (secular and sacred), church organ compositions, and sacred solos.