Edmund Wilcox

03/03/2002

Edmund Gillette "Bud" Wilcox, 87, of Glendale died Sunday at home. Born in Glendale on March 2, 1915, son of Edmund C. and Charlotte Geer Wilcox, he graduated from the former Williams High School and attended Wilbraham Academy. He graduated from the former Massachusetts State College, now the University of Massachusetts, in 1939. He received a master's degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940 and did graduate work at Columbia University. He was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. Mr. Wilcox was inducted into the Army Air Forceson April 15, 1941, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. He landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, and worked in an engineering corps building the first runways for Allied planes in France. He was with troops who liberated two Nazi concentration camps. In 1945, he assumed ownership of the former Stockbridge Coal & Grain from his father. He sold the company, now Stockbridge Fuel, in 1985. Before the war, he worked as a landscape architect at Bristol Nurseries. Mr. Wilcox was a trustee of the Berkshire Garden Center, now Berkshire Botanical Garden, First Congregational Church, the Stockbridge Library, Lee Bank, the Stockbridge Bowl Association and the Laurel Hill Association. He was a member of the Stockbridge Sportsman's Club, the Hollywood Club, the Tri-Town Kiwanis, the Stockbridge Conservation Commission and the American Landscape Architect Association. He enjoyed skiing, boating and gardening, and held a commercial pilot's license. He and his wife, the former Lucy Wordsworth, were married in October 1947 in Housatonic. Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, Shelley Wilcox Balfanz of Stockbridge and Heidi Gillette Wilcox of Woodstock, Vt., and a granddaughter. A service of remembrance will be held Wednesday, March 6, at 2 at First Congregational Church in Stockbridge, with the Rev. Steven Bridges, pastor, officiating. There will be no calling hours. Those who desire may make memorial contributions in Mr. Wilcox's memory to First Congregational Church, Stockbridge, or to the Stockbridge Library Association in care of FINNERTY & STEVENS FUNERAL HOME, 426 Main St., Great Barrington, MA 01230. Remembrances, memories, and reflections for the Wilcox family may also be sent to finnerty@bcn.net.

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