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Boyd Wilson

Mountain View CA United States 

Boyd W. Wilson Resident of Los Altos June 8, 1919 - Nov. 3, 2010 Boyd Wilson died Wednesday, November 3 at the VA Hospital Hospice Care Unit in Palo Alto from complications of renal cancer. He was a lifelong member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, and a member of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter 7. At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941 Boyd was stationed aboard the USS Nevada located at the end of battleship row next to the USS Arizona. He retired from the navy in 1963 having achieved the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class. He is survived by his loving wife Fern Wilson (nee Gilbert) formerly of Newport, Oregon, his son Richard and two stepchildren Lindsay and Jason. He was also grandfather to three grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. The family respectfully requests memorial contribution may be made in Boyd's memory to The American Cancer Society, 747 Camden Avenue, Suite B, Campbell, CA 95008 There will be no memorial service scheduled, the family plans on a private memorial at Pearl Harbor at the site of the USS Nevada memorial where his ashes will be scattered.
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