Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 11:11:44 :
Marin Independent Journal
Wednesday, August 1, 1990
JIMPS A. WILCOX
Carpenter training officer
Jimps A. Wilcox of Fairfax, a carpenter who produced training programs and materials used throughout the state for training in his trade and served for eight years on the Fairfax Planning commission, died Monday, July 30, 1990, at Marin General Hospital after a short illness. He was 73.
Mr. Wilcox was a native of Weleetka, Okla. He grew up in Oklahoma, moving in the 1930s to California.
After serving during World War II in the Army Counter Intelligence Corps, he returned to Marin, living first in Marin City, th en purchasing a lot in Fairfax in 1948 and building his own home.
He worked as a carpenter and as a teacher of carpentry, including serving as a training officer in the Carpenters’ Apprenticeship Program. He was a member of Sons in Retirement Branch 77, Marin Rod & Gun Club and Carpenters Union Local 35 in San Rafael. He also was very active in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Following his retirement in 1979, he traveled to the Far East and throughout Western and Eastern Europe for several months.
He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Rita Wilcox; a son, Russell Wilcox of Oakland; a daughter, Claudia Leithe of Santa Rosa; two brothers, Joe J. Wilcox of Jupiter, Fla., and Dr. Ray Wilcox of Weleetka; two sisters, Janis Anglin of Kansas City, Mo., and Milbria Anglin of Oklahoma City; and two grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo. Burial will be in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael. Visitation at the mortuary will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that his grandchildren were named Brooke and Brian Leithe.
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