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- [S23] Atchley Funeral Home, (http://www.atchleyfuneralhome.com/), 14 Apr 2002.
Dr. C.P. Wilson, Jr.
February 24, 1917 - April 14, 2002
Birthplace: Union County, Tennessee
Resided In: Sevierville Tennessee USA
Visitation: April 17, 2002
Service: April 18, 2002
Cemetery: Shiloh Cemetery
Dr. C.P. Wilson, Jr., age 85, of Sevierville died Sunday April 14, 2002.
He was a Major in the Army Dental Corp and practiced dentistry in Sevier County for 45 years. He was a Sevierville City Council Alderman for seven years and served on numerous community service committees and organizations throughout his life.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jean Wilson.
Survivors:
Daughters and Sons-in-law:
Barbara Jean and J.T. Ownby
Cassie Quinn
Sloan and Eugene Maes
Grandson:
Richard Quinn
Sister:
Helen Justice
Funeral service 10 AM Thursday in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home. Eulogies will be delivered by Gary Wade, Bob Parker, and Lisa Reagan. Interment will follow in Shiloh Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 PM Wednesday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.
At the families request, memorial contributions may be made to: The Dr. C.P. Wilson, Jr. Scholarship Fund--% The Sevier County Dental Association, P.O. Box 4186, Sevierville, Tennessee 37864 or to the Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, Dental Wing—312 Prince Street—Sevierville, Tennessee 37862.
(www.atchleyfuneralhome.com)
- [S106] The Mountain Press, 16 Apr 2002.
The city lost a man many called a gentleman and a friend Sunday in the death of Dr. C.P. Wilson Jr.
Wilson, 85, had a decades-long record of public service, having served as a city alderman and chairman of the planning board, housing authority and recreation board, as well as serving as chairman of various task forces and associations.
"He was the most conscientious public official I ever knew," said Judge Gary Wade, who served with Wilson first as a fellow alderman and later as mayor.
But if left to himself, Wilson may not have ever run for public office.
Wade explained that Wilson, a dentist, was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board of aldermen. He never asked for the position, or asked for a vote afterward.
"It was because of his humility," Wade said, "not because of his pride."
While Wilson's accomplishments were many, he was particularly pleased to be part of the group responsible for the Sevierville Community Center.
Wilson was one of several aldermen who started that project, and while Wilson said it was under Wade's leadership, Wade has another idea.
"There would be no Sevierville Community Center without C.P. Wilson," Wade said.
Wilson's interest in recreation didn't begin when he served as alderman.
He was named Best Boy Athlete at Carson-Newman College in 1938 and earned letters in basketball, baseball, football and tennis. With nine, he held the record for the most letters earned at the college for years, Wade said.
One of Wilson's biggest claims to fame came when he was still a teen-ager as a member of the only football team to go undefeated for a full season in the history of Sevier County High School.
Now John Fox and Amos Marshall are the only surviving members of that team. Both visited their longtime friend in his last week.
Marshall and his wife, Edna, described Wilson as a gentleman, a description they said held true until the end.
"He was a gentleman and he wanted to die with dignity," Marshall said. "He had what he wanted."
Marshall said Wilson was even a gentleman in his early years on the football field, despite his competitive spirit.
"I consider him the best athlete that ever graduated from Sevier County High School," Marshall said. "I guess he was the main reason we went undefeated."
Many people apparently agreed with Marshall. Wilson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Sevier County High School Hall of Fame last year.
"It's a tough search for proper words to honor a man who went among his peers with humility and grace, and with a great sense of family values," Fox said.
"The word 'noble' recurs often when I think of Dr. C.P. Wilson. Indeed he was one of nature's noble men in our town and out of our town, and he was a graceful ornament to the civil order. He will also be remembered as a rare being - a man whose talents and worth were his eternal grounds for distinction."
Wade said the perfect Wilson moment would have been "a quiet moment, a thoughtful moment, and one that ended in a chuckle."
While the public remembers Wilson as an athlete and an advocate, his friends remember him best as a man of honor.
"I never saw him have a bad day. I never saw him have a bad moment," Wade said. "He was practically perfect in every way."
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