Lawrence Wesley Wilson
December 25, 1946 ~ February 17, 2025
Lawrence Wesley Wilson was born December 25, 1946 and grew up in Park Ridge, IL. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout, played violin in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and won several science and scholastic awards before graduating from Maine Township High School in Des Plaines, IL.
After graduation, he was chosen to represent the U.S. at the International Youth Science Fortnight in London UK. He earned a B.S. with honors in Physics at the University of Illinois and the M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Maryland, and he attended the Honeywell Institute of Informational Sciences in Fullerton, CA. His career as a software developer was distinguished by 20 years of work on the original Hilton Hotels Reservation System, which he helped write and continuously upgrade.
After residing in Plano, TX for many years, Larry and his wife of 36 years, Catherine Clancy Wilson, settled in Rohnert Park, CA. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children: Lawrence W. Wilson, Jr., Kristina Goodacre, and Andrew C. Wilson, four grandchildren, and his sister Barbara Jean Adams and his brother Curtis J. Wilson..
