Mr. Wilson, 86, of South Amboy, died June 9, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was employed as an auto-body repairman and master painter with Melrose Auto Body, South Amboy. After that, he worked as a bus auto-body painter at Oak Tree Bus Co., Edison, and later as a maintenance man at Woodbridge Diagnostics and Treatment Center. His wife, Maria F. Richardella Wilson, died in 1986. Surviving are four children, Cora Ann Lukie, and her husband, J. Ronald, and Leslie Wilson, and his wife, Carol, all of Melrose, Andrew Wilson, and his wife, Yuli, of Woodbridge and Helen Sabo, and her husband, Mark, of Saylorsburg, Pa.; three brothers, Jack, Ray and Sam Wilson; a sister, Shirley Barber; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. Services were held at Carmen F. Spezzi Funeral Home, Parlin section of Sayreville. Interment was in Christ Church Cemetery, South Amboy.
