Roskelley- LeRoy Wilson (Grandma Roskelley's Dad)

Events in the life of LeRoy Valentine Wilson:

Roy was born in 1900 in River Heights, Utah. He had 2 sisters and 4 brothers. Roy was the second youngest child in the family.
Roy’s mother was a very brilliant woman who encouraged all of the children to graduate from college, which was a very unusual accomplishment at that time in American history.
The brothers took turns working and supporting each other to make it possible for each to finish their college degrees. One or two were engineers. One became a physician. Roy became a dentist. The youngest brother dropped out of college, got married, and was a mechanic. After 15 years of dental practice Roy retired form the profession and financed the purchase of the Ford Motor Dealership in Logan as half owner with that youngest brother.
While going to school Roy played the violin and banjo in local bands and would go on the road to do a magic show over a large geographic area.
Between college and dental school he taught art in the Brigham City High school and during the summers painted scenery for movie backdrops for MGM Studios in Hollywood, Cal..
During dental school he was the top student in the class and during his senior year became an examiner, assistant professor, of his fellow classmate’s dental work.
He returned to Logan to practice and at age 31 married Elma Budge, who was 18 years of age and the daughter of a very prominent physician, Dr. T.B. Budge.
In the following years they had four children with two surviving. The oldest was Joan, along with her little sister, Virginia.
Roy was in the Ford dealership form 1943 to 1962. In 1955 he had a severe coronary occlusion which was life threatening. His heart attack was the determining factor in his leaving the dealership. Soon after he joined with his bother-in-law, Richard Chambers, to form a stock brokerage in Logan under the name of Chambers and Wilson. Later a USU professor by the name of Jim Thorne bought out the Chambers interest, making the brokerage a new company under the name of Thorne and Wilson.
Roy was still working each day at the brokerage in Logan until his death at age 91.
In his younger years he was interested in hunting, fishing, a little golf, and civic involvement. He belonged to Kiwanis and later the Rotary Club all his adult life.
His children called him “The Jack of All Trades,” because he would attempt any repair problem in and around the home and always found a way to be successful.
He painted landscapes in oil through many of the later decades of his life, and had several on display in public building for years.
Throughout Roy’s live he was a very quiet, reserved, honest gentleman. He was well respected by all who knew him and was often sought out for financial advice by the young and old of Logan.
One of his trademarks was the way he always dressed. He never left his home without a hat, tie and coat. He will be remembered for his kind and gentle ways.