S/O Robert Shelby Wilson and Nina Gladys (Tietge) Wilson.
Husband of Wanda Lavonne Wilson.
Everette's beginning was meager. His father left the family when the children were small. Nina baked bread and sold it for .10 cents a loaf, Everette carried papers every morning before school to help the family get by. The weight of the load he carried every day broke down his left hip and he walked with a limp his entire life. In May of 1934 he graduated from Trinity Lutheran School in Atchison, Kansas. In 1935 he received his diploma from East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a member of the band and the ROTC. On June 30, 1940 he married Wanda Lavonne Evans. She was 16 and he was 19 years old.
January 25, 1944 he was inducted into the United States Navy-Stationed at Farragut, Idaho. After boot camp he was rated Third Class Petty officer-one stripe. Pictures from boot camp. Company commander B.B. Jarrard, Louis T. Thornton (nick name Curly), Williamsburg, Kansas, Lee Odaffer, Garnett, Kansas, Harold Lee Foster, Troy, Kansas and Russell earl Crane, Newton, Kansas stationed aboard the U.SS Marcab. Because of a cranial hemotoma and his excessive limp, he was medically discharged from the service in January of 1945.
On September 14, 1950 he received his journeyman's gasfitter certificate. April 20, 1951 started business and obtained Kansas City, Kansas License as a gasfitter. June 30, 1952 started Wilson Furnace Company and received his plumbing and heating license from Excelsior Springs, Mo.
In 1953 he started work for Khulman Diecasting Company, 24th steet in Kansas City, Missouri. There he learned the craft of tool and die maker. In 1953 he received his Airman Card from the Civil Aeronautics Assoc and medical certification from the Federal Aviation Agency. He flew a Waco double winged plane.
The family moved to the country in 1954 and he continued in his tool and die career. He started his own diecasting business which was a struggle but successful. He was an inventor and had several patents on his inventions. It was never about the money. He got an idea and just had to make it to see if it worked. There are at least nine inventions that I can think of that were pre requsites to items in use today. A few of these items were Automatic wood planer, Machining jig for die sets, Iron holder, can smasher, high wind warning system, pond de-icer, rotary tiller to name a few. Above all was his love of God and family. He was a loving, giving human being. I can remember him getting up in the middle of the night to go bail one of his employees out of jail. Although the family did not have alot of money. Every Christmas he would find out who was needy in town. He would have boxes covered with pretty Christmas paper. Go to the store and get turkeys, potatos, sweet potatos, rolls and all the fixings for a big Christmas dinner and then have us kids or one of his employees deliver them on Christmas Eve to the needy families in town. He would always say, "tell them it's from Santa." Even after he got cancer, he still thought of others. There was an elderly couple who's place was next to ours. They lived in an old one room house that was heated with a coal stove. Dad would go there every week and get their grocery order, go to town and get the things they needed and bring it back to them.
Epilogue: He taught me the four most important things in the world: Love, integrity, honesty and hard work are the things that define a man, not money or things. I thank you, Dad. I love you and miss you and I'm proud to be your daughter.
Sandy
Husband of Wanda Lavonne Wilson.
Everette's beginning was meager. His father left the family when the children were small. Nina baked bread and sold it for .10 cents a loaf, Everette carried papers every morning before school to help the family get by. The weight of the load he carried every day broke down his left hip and he walked with a limp his entire life. In May of 1934 he graduated from Trinity Lutheran School in Atchison, Kansas. In 1935 he received his diploma from East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a member of the band and the ROTC. On June 30, 1940 he married Wanda Lavonne Evans. She was 16 and he was 19 years old.
January 25, 1944 he was inducted into the United States Navy-Stationed at Farragut, Idaho. After boot camp he was rated Third Class Petty officer-one stripe. Pictures from boot camp. Company commander B.B. Jarrard, Louis T. Thornton (nick name Curly), Williamsburg, Kansas, Lee Odaffer, Garnett, Kansas, Harold Lee Foster, Troy, Kansas and Russell earl Crane, Newton, Kansas stationed aboard the U.SS Marcab. Because of a cranial hemotoma and his excessive limp, he was medically discharged from the service in January of 1945.
On September 14, 1950 he received his journeyman's gasfitter certificate. April 20, 1951 started business and obtained Kansas City, Kansas License as a gasfitter. June 30, 1952 started Wilson Furnace Company and received his plumbing and heating license from Excelsior Springs, Mo.
In 1953 he started work for Khulman Diecasting Company, 24th steet in Kansas City, Missouri. There he learned the craft of tool and die maker. In 1953 he received his Airman Card from the Civil Aeronautics Assoc and medical certification from the Federal Aviation Agency. He flew a Waco double winged plane.
The family moved to the country in 1954 and he continued in his tool and die career. He started his own diecasting business which was a struggle but successful. He was an inventor and had several patents on his inventions. It was never about the money. He got an idea and just had to make it to see if it worked. There are at least nine inventions that I can think of that were pre requsites to items in use today. A few of these items were Automatic wood planer, Machining jig for die sets, Iron holder, can smasher, high wind warning system, pond de-icer, rotary tiller to name a few. Above all was his love of God and family. He was a loving, giving human being. I can remember him getting up in the middle of the night to go bail one of his employees out of jail. Although the family did not have alot of money. Every Christmas he would find out who was needy in town. He would have boxes covered with pretty Christmas paper. Go to the store and get turkeys, potatos, sweet potatos, rolls and all the fixings for a big Christmas dinner and then have us kids or one of his employees deliver them on Christmas Eve to the needy families in town. He would always say, "tell them it's from Santa." Even after he got cancer, he still thought of others. There was an elderly couple who's place was next to ours. They lived in an old one room house that was heated with a coal stove. Dad would go there every week and get their grocery order, go to town and get the things they needed and bring it back to them.
Epilogue: He taught me the four most important things in the world: Love, integrity, honesty and hard work are the things that define a man, not money or things. I thank you, Dad. I love you and miss you and I'm proud to be your daughter.
Sandy
S/O Robert Shelby Wilson and Nina Gladys (Tietge) Wilson.
Husband of Wanda Lavonne Wilson.
Everette's beginning was meager. His father left the family when the children were small. Nina baked bread and sold it for .10 cents a loaf, Everette carried papers every morning before school to help the family get by. The weight of the load he carried every day broke down his left hip and he walked with a limp his entire life. In May of 1934 he graduated from Trinity Lutheran School in Atchison, Kansas. In 1935 he received his diploma from East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a member of the band and the ROTC. On June 30, 1940 he married Wanda Lavonne Evans. She was 16 and he was 19 years old.
January 25, 1944 he was inducted into the United States Navy-Stationed at Farragut, Idaho. After boot camp he was rated Third Class Petty officer-one stripe. Pictures from boot camp. Company commander B.B. Jarrard, Louis T. Thornton (nick name Curly), Williamsburg, Kansas, Lee Odaffer, Garnett, Kansas, Harold Lee Foster, Troy, Kansas and Russell earl Crane, Newton, Kansas stationed aboard the U.SS Marcab. Because of a cranial hemotoma and his excessive limp, he was medically discharged from the service in January of 1945.
On September 14, 1950 he received his journeyman's gasfitter certificate. April 20, 1951 started business and obtained Kansas City, Kansas License as a gasfitter. June 30, 1952 started Wilson Furnace Company and received his plumbing and heating license from Excelsior Springs, Mo.
In 1953 he started work for Khulman Diecasting Company, 24th steet in Kansas City, Missouri. There he learned the craft of tool and die maker. In 1953 he received his Airman Card from the Civil Aeronautics Assoc and medical certification from the Federal Aviation Agency. He flew a Waco double winged plane.
The family moved to the country in 1954 and he continued in his tool and die career. He started his own diecasting business which was a struggle but successful. He was an inventor and had several patents on his inventions. It was never about the money. He got an idea and just had to make it to see if it worked. There are at least nine inventions that I can think of that were pre requsites to items in use today. A few of these items were Automatic wood planer, Machining jig for die sets, Iron holder, can smasher, high wind warning system, pond de-icer, rotary tiller to name a few. Above all was his love of God and family. He was a loving, giving human being. I can remember him getting up in the middle of the night to go bail one of his employees out of jail. Although the family did not have alot of money. Every Christmas he would find out who was needy in town. He would have boxes covered with pretty Christmas paper. Go to the store and get turkeys, potatos, sweet potatos, rolls and all the fixings for a big Christmas dinner and then have us kids or one of his employees deliver them on Christmas Eve to the needy families in town. He would always say, "tell them it's from Santa." Even after he got cancer, he still thought of others. There was an elderly couple who's place was next to ours. They lived in an old one room house that was heated with a coal stove. Dad would go there every week and get their grocery order, go to town and get the things they needed and bring it back to them.
Epilogue: He taught me the four most important things in the world: Love, integrity, honesty and hard work are the things that define a man, not money or things. I thank you, Dad. I love you and miss you and I'm proud to be your daughter.
Sandy
Husband of Wanda Lavonne Wilson.
Everette's beginning was meager. His father left the family when the children were small. Nina baked bread and sold it for .10 cents a loaf, Everette carried papers every morning before school to help the family get by. The weight of the load he carried every day broke down his left hip and he walked with a limp his entire life. In May of 1934 he graduated from Trinity Lutheran School in Atchison, Kansas. In 1935 he received his diploma from East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a member of the band and the ROTC. On June 30, 1940 he married Wanda Lavonne Evans. She was 16 and he was 19 years old.
January 25, 1944 he was inducted into the United States Navy-Stationed at Farragut, Idaho. After boot camp he was rated Third Class Petty officer-one stripe. Pictures from boot camp. Company commander B.B. Jarrard, Louis T. Thornton (nick name Curly), Williamsburg, Kansas, Lee Odaffer, Garnett, Kansas, Harold Lee Foster, Troy, Kansas and Russell earl Crane, Newton, Kansas stationed aboard the U.SS Marcab. Because of a cranial hemotoma and his excessive limp, he was medically discharged from the service in January of 1945.
On September 14, 1950 he received his journeyman's gasfitter certificate. April 20, 1951 started business and obtained Kansas City, Kansas License as a gasfitter. June 30, 1952 started Wilson Furnace Company and received his plumbing and heating license from Excelsior Springs, Mo.
In 1953 he started work for Khulman Diecasting Company, 24th steet in Kansas City, Missouri. There he learned the craft of tool and die maker. In 1953 he received his Airman Card from the Civil Aeronautics Assoc and medical certification from the Federal Aviation Agency. He flew a Waco double winged plane.
The family moved to the country in 1954 and he continued in his tool and die career. He started his own diecasting business which was a struggle but successful. He was an inventor and had several patents on his inventions. It was never about the money. He got an idea and just had to make it to see if it worked. There are at least nine inventions that I can think of that were pre requsites to items in use today. A few of these items were Automatic wood planer, Machining jig for die sets, Iron holder, can smasher, high wind warning system, pond de-icer, rotary tiller to name a few. Above all was his love of God and family. He was a loving, giving human being. I can remember him getting up in the middle of the night to go bail one of his employees out of jail. Although the family did not have alot of money. Every Christmas he would find out who was needy in town. He would have boxes covered with pretty Christmas paper. Go to the store and get turkeys, potatos, sweet potatos, rolls and all the fixings for a big Christmas dinner and then have us kids or one of his employees deliver them on Christmas Eve to the needy families in town. He would always say, "tell them it's from Santa." Even after he got cancer, he still thought of others. There was an elderly couple who's place was next to ours. They lived in an old one room house that was heated with a coal stove. Dad would go there every week and get their grocery order, go to town and get the things they needed and bring it back to them.
Epilogue: He taught me the four most important things in the world: Love, integrity, honesty and hard work are the things that define a man, not money or things. I thank you, Dad. I love you and miss you and I'm proud to be your daughter.
Sandy
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