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TYLER JENNINGS WILSON
Family remembers a charismatic, devoted husband & young father
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Tyler and Crystal Wilson on their wedding day. - photo by Photo Contributed
Tyler Jennings Wilson was an outgoing young man, charismatic, and a devoted husband and father, among his many sterling qualities that family and friends will long remember.He also was always the first one to eagerly raise his hand when someone was looking for a volunteer, even before he knew what he was supposed to be volunteering for.That’s how he ended up in Washington, D.C., in 2006 when he served as part of the Honor Guard at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda where the casket of the late President Gerald Ford lay in state. He just completed U.S. Coast Guard boot camp and was waiting to go to training school in Virginia when their officer announced he needed 25 volunteers without giving any further explanation. Tyler immediately raised his hand.