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In Memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
1947 - 2021
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Joe, Christina, Finn, and Lochlan Giuliani planted 5 trees in memory of Susan Wilson
Monday, December 27, 2021
5 trees were planted in memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
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Thinking of you, the fond memories of Easters, summer vacations, and other family celebrations.
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Joyce and John Giuliani planted 3 trees in memory of Susan Wilson
Saturday, December 25, 2021
3 trees were planted in memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
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For my sister who enjoyed a walk in the trees. In her memory, a contribution to the "wood-wide-web." With love.
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Kathleen and Rick Towner planted 3 trees in memory of Susan Wilson
Friday, December 24, 2021
3 trees were planted in memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
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With loving memories of a wonderful sister who will be deeply missed.
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Katy's Book Club planted 3 trees in memory of Susan Wilson
Thursday, December 23, 2021
3 trees were planted in memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
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In loving memory of Susan Wilson, from Abby Jurk, Amara Ellis, Jessica Levy, Lorraine Partee, Naomi Salamon, Kristen Essex, and Tamara Ellis
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3 trees were planted in memory of Susan Wilson
Thursday, December 23, 2021
3 trees were planted in memory of
Susan Kaminski Wilson
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I plant 3 memorial trees-- symbolically from myself, & my deceased brothers, Richard & Steve to honor our memories of cousin Susan's life & spirit.
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Nicole and Jen Trader-Morgeson planted a tree in memory of Susan Wilson
Saturday, January 15, 2022
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With caring thoughts,
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Jeanne Pontti and Family planted a tree in memory of Susan Wilson
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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With deepest sympathy
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Plamano planted a tree in memory of Susan Wilson
Sunday, January 2, 2022
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Dear Joyce and family, So sorry for your loss. May your sister live on in this tree. Love and Blessings, Pat Lamano
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Jessica Kaminski Landon posted a condolence
Monday, December 27, 2021
My beloved Aunt Susan is a gem and her smile and her laugh will shine forever in my memory!
I too cherish the memories my sisters shared of beach trips, of family crammed together in Grandma and Pop Pop's house at holidays, a kitchen crowded with my aunts and grandmother, themed Christmas baskets exchanged at Thanksgiving and cherished visits to Aunt Susan and Uncle Rick's PA house in the country. I too have the vivid memory of waking up early to visit the neighbor to milk a cow! Thanks to Aunt Susan for making that memory happen. Her love of family and fellowship, parties and friendship is to be cherished.
I appreciate her talent for creating as well as preserving memories. I have a lovely quilted square she made using material from my grandfather's neck ties (her father) and a memory shadow-box in honor of my grandmother (her mother). She had a desire to preserve family stories and traditions and along with her sisters has helped to pass them on in practice and in written form.
I have Black Eyed Susans planted in my garden and they always remind me of her. They are strong like her, they are bright and cheerful like her and this spring, with the help of the bees, they overtook my Shasta Daisies. Now all the flowers in that section are Black Eyed Susans! I think its a nice reflection of the strength she displayed through the years and especially in her sunset years. What beauty and love she gave us in life and I am looking forward to seeing her smile again in heaven.
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Jennifer R Philbrick posted a condolence
Monday, December 27, 2021
I have so many amazing memories of my kindhearted Aunt. The memories of those shared by my sisters are still dear to my heart-the beach, skiing for the first time, and milking cows. One of my first gifts as a newborn was a very special Christmas stocking that Aunt Susan made me for my first Christmas! I still have it and hung it up this year in her honor. Aunt Susan loves family gatherings and was an amazing cook. I remember the wonderful meals she prepared when the family got together. Her love for family is one she shared with her Mom (my Grandma) and did an excellent job carrying on this love. Aunt Susan will be greatly missed and I am so thankful for all the time we had together on this side of heaven!! Miss you Aunt Susan.
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Joanne Kaminski Roy posted a condolence
Monday, December 27, 2021
When I think of my Aunt Susan I think of arts, crafts, knitting, cross-stitching, food, laughter, and especially family. Traditions were so important to her. I remember my wedding, where her and my Aunt Kathy and Aunt Joyce, did their very best at singing the few words they remember from their Grandparents, while they placed a knitted doily and hat upon my new husband and me. The laughter was tremendous, but the love and eagerness to pass on the traditions were even more apparent.
Our beach trip tradition to the Outer Banks, NC are also a vivid memory for me. These annual trips brought my sisters and I closer to our cousins and extended family where fire works and laughter were always a part of a puzzle-filled, seafood-feasting, sun-bathing and elaborate sandcastle-making vacations.
I milked my first and only cow near my Aunt Susan’s house in Gaines, PA. Her neighbor had a cow and I remember one morning walking down to the barn and learning how to milk a cow. It was an amazing experience for a young kid.
I also got on skis for the first time at my Aunt Susan’s house. Sam was a great skier, and he took us outside and up the large hill in the back of the house to learn. So much fun, but I was definitely not going to be heading to the Olympics after that experience.
Thank you, Aunt Susan, for instilling the love of family and traditions to me. You have done a great job with your kids, and I love to see how Caroline has developed that same love for keeping the family together. You have left us an awesome legacy and we will love you forever.
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Judith Kaminski Grunau posted a condolence
Sunday, December 26, 2021
This morning I woke up to a snowstorm and my dad, Susan's brother, making potato cakes like their mother did. I became the student for the second batch, learning our heritage of love and care our family passes down. Tasting them reminded me of summers with my cousins, aunts, and uncles--all finding a place to sleep at Grandma's house and waking up to grandma cooking potato cakes all morning. These family vacations always meant a trip to the coolest house I'd ever been to where Aunt Susan made an old house on a hill into a magical playground for us kids; a house with more than one staircase, a rope swing, a creek you could walk to. Visiting there definitely had an influence on my desire to abandon life in a suburb and raise my family in the country.
This Christmas, as usual, the skirt that adorned the base of our tree is one made by my Aunt Susan. The four quilted angels on it all have a different color hair and remind me of my sisters and me. It really shows her talent and this year it was especially nice to have a piece she created with us on Christmas morning.
The day before Aunt Susan passed, I awoke from a dream thinking someone (a child) had called for me, but the house was silent. I don't remember my dreams often, but this one seemed particularly poignant. In the dream there was a woman who had passed on and when she awoke she was surrounded by people to care for her and standing next to her were all those that loved her, that had gone before her, waiting to hold her-- her mother, her father, some people my dream didn't identify. The woman in my dream was not Aunt Susan, but I couldn't help thinking of her when I awoke. I believe she is now being greeted by my Grandma and PopPop (Her mom and dad) and many others, embracing her and loving her deeply. She will be missed here deeply as well because of the love she passed on to all of us.
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Joanne Kaminski Roy posted a condolence
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Eulogy Remarks from Joe Allan (Brother of Susan Wilson). Unable to attend in-person services, wanted to post memories of his beloved sister.
"Just a few simple things from early on. Our Father modified the upstairs of the classic post WWII victory house we grew up in so I ended up sharing a closet with Susan but it was between rooms so you could actually walk through the closet into my room or hers. It was visual representation of having a close family or family relationship that has continued into the next generations.
Then I remember the Easter mornings when we wanted it to be warm but it never was, so we went, as was tradition, to Druid Hills Park for pictures bundled up in winter coats instead of spring clothes. But it was always fascinating that the flowers were out and didn’t mind.
College and the rest of life separated us quite a bit, but I remember that one of Susan’s first jobs was analyzing blood types and she taught me all I know about that subject which I actually got to use in a Trivia game at a recent Christmas party.
My fondest memory is watching a multitude of kids running up and down the hills around the creek at this immaculate country house in far away Gains. Susan made that place the epitome of a home and maybe the coolest place to raise kids that there is. And I think my nephew and nieces would agree. Just another example of her devotion to family closeness.
Her artistic ability in putting together various window boxes packed with family memorabilia and the love that went into it was just amazing.
Then in later years, the strength she showed in dealing with her infirmity and how even that brought her family together is remarkable.
As a brother, Brother-in-law and Uncle, I am proud to be related to the Wilsons, and Nilssons', and Hampton/Wilsons and look forward to seeing the love of family started by the Matriarch continue to flourish in the future."
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Marilyn Lee posted a condolence
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Dear Rick, Sam, Caroline and Katie and families,
I just found out about 30 minutes ago about Susan’s passing. I am so very sorry and regret that I missed the notice in the paper. You all have my deepest sympathy and hope that you are doing as well as possible. I enjoyed the many years of knowing Susan and admired her many capabilities and accomplishments. I am very sorry that she has had such a difficult time over the last several years. I shall keep you each in my thoughts and prayers. God bless.
Love, Marilyn Lee
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Evelyn Harper posted a condolence
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Dear Rick and Family,
You may not remember me, but I taught school with Susan at Norwood. My husband, Bunie, was a civil engineer at the Pittsburgh Plate (PPG) in Stonewood. Bunie and I enjoyed a friendship with you and Susan. At the time, we lived in an apartment on Sumner St. in Clarksburg. I can remember Susan's having a "name" for her Mercedes automobile!
I was so sorry to read about the passing of Susan. And....I also was sad to realize that we lived so close....Rivendell Drive in Bridgeport. Bunie passed away nearly 3 years ago from colon cancer. I miss him so very much. We were married 53 years! I read that you and Susan also shared a long marriage. A friend of mine, Vickie Baker, whose husband was Delbert, also lives at Maple Lake. You may know her.
I just wanted to send you and your family my condolences, Rick.
Sincerely,
Evelyn
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Kathleen Towner lit a candle
Friday, December 24, 2021
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Someone told me once that when people pass, they go from being present in your life to being resident in your heart. But my sister Susan has always been there already, ever since I can remember. I have so many good memories to be grateful for it is hard to narrow it down to write just a few here.
There were the silly nicknames she gave me when I was little, how much fun she was when we were growing up, how smart she was, the way she’d make the car “dance” when driving us to the library (where she planned to read every book starting with the first A and last Z and working her way to the middle.) She played piano in a way that amazed me. When it was my turn for music lessons, the best part of that was when she’d pick me up and we’d swear each other to secrecy going to this new place on the way home called Burger King.
Susan married Rick Wilson when I was just 10. Susan and Rick were great together, both of them with loads of imagination and a sense of play like naming their cars, Marvelous Merlin the Magical Mercedes comes to mind. Their wedding, just before the rest of us moved to New York, was an epic event with trumpets for the march down the aisle, loads of family, and many good memories.
My sister Susan helped open up my mind as well as my imagination. She was interested in genetics, and science in general. Through that avenue, she bred day-lilies as a hobby, cross-pollinating them, like a latter day Gregor Mendel, to try to achieve a pure white one. (The descendants of some of her experiments are still thriving in my garden today.) She taught me to appreciate wildflowers. “A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place.” And to be alert to invasive species, as she single-handedly tried to wipe out garlic-cress and loose-strife whenever she saw it.
Susan loved puzzles. She made beautiful, artistic quilts. She was a dynamo. When she set her mind to something it would get completed. I especially loved her house in Pennsylvania, with three colors of wood on the banisters she refinished, a beautiful elegant parlor and everywhere else, it was just messy comfort, lots of magazines, projects, radios, dog, cats, kids… fun.
Susan was the chief instigator when we were older for our themed Christmas gift exchanges. One year the theme was “1, 2, 3, 4” based on our birth order, another year it was “compound words.” We were assigned “grapefruit” and got lots of things based on both grapes, fruit, and grapefruit. The year that was the most fun was “Rivers, Ocean, Lakes, and Swamps”, all forms of water. It mays sound strange but it led to lots of laughs. There were many very special and sweet celebrations at Susan and Rick’s houses in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Other important family memories are Susan and Rick with their kids. Susan was a great mom and brave enough to let her children explore and try things on their own (memorably little Caroline walking herself home from the beach to the rental house, Sam skiing on rocks, Katy working on a relative’s fishing boat in Alaska.) No helicopter mom there and her independent, strong, and loving family is a great testament to her. And also their joy. I recall the Wilsons whooping and laughing at niece Elaine’s wedding when they discovered they could take a photo of themselves with Colorado’s Mount Wilson in the background. Theirs is usually the fun table at our now too infrequent family events.
Though these last years were so hard, I will remember when Susan was able to smile again after her stroke. And better yet when she told me a joke or I could make her laugh. And the last time all of us sisters were together we sang songs and were just happy to be together. My heart is full of gratitude for having been lucky enough to have such a sister.
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Vera Ellen Kaminski Saxton posted a condolence
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Memorial Tribute of Vera Ellen Kaminski Saxton to her cousin Susan Elaine Kaminski Wilson.
My link to my cousin Susan occurred because of biology, as well as our chronological and geographical closeness. As the only girl in my immediate family between two brothers, Richard who was five years older and Steve who was five years younger than myself, my cousin Susan, was “historically” and perhaps socially or culturally closer, yet still two years my senior. In our influential younger days, Susan lived in bordering neighborhood akin socially and culturally to my own. Hence, Susan was an important role model as she and I were both mid-twentieth century females. From a double cousin’s distance, I observed with keen interest Susan’s preparations for her first formal High School Prom, and her careful decision making on where she would to go to College. I was delighted to be invited to participate as a bridesmaid in her wedding to Rick Wilson-- which was one of those traditional “big family wedding events” like the kind that we observed photographically documented in ceremony that our Mothers Mae and Vera Rutkow shared as sisters in their double wedding to Kaminski brothers Joe and Ed.
Another one of my influential memories of Susan includes the pseudo simulated, inexpensive and yet ecological & most creative game we played for hours on my parent’s front porch using the large annual Montgomery Ward Catalogue to select “best items” for our “must have” wish list. The “rules” were that we alternated on first picks, with Susan scoring on the even number pages while Vera Ellen’s choice picks were on the next odd number pages. I must note the important fact that this ritual game covered ever single page in the voluminous catalogue publication. In hindsight, Susan’s most important and influential contribution was setting an example and teaching me to scan not just using my eyes but to both read and strategically compare and contrast the technical data and price points. To this day, I will honor Susan for this pivotal lesson along with another most tender and eye opening event, when, I observed the very loving example of teamwork with her most steadfast husband, Rick, which enabled Susan’s motherly and active participation in the wedding party of her youngest daughter, Katie, despite the physical limitations imposed by her untimely stroke. Susan consistently used her strength, intelligence, mental will and courage to pursue with persistence throughout her life. Thank you Susan for setting a stellar example.
I extending my condolences to her family with love and respect. I am sorry for their loss.
I wish to plant three memorial trees-- spiritually & symbolically from myself, and my deceased brothers, Richard and Steve to honor our memories of cousin Susan’s life & spirit.
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Vicki Nichols posted a condolence
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this most difficult time. Marion County Senior Citizens.
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Sandra Cizek-Wood posted a condolence
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
I am very sorry to hear this news. Many years ago (approximately 43) I met Susan at a LA Leche meeting in Galeton, PA. Her guidance was helpful for me as a young mother. She left such a positive impact that I remember her all these years later. My deepest sympathy to all.
A Memorial Tree was planted for Susan Wilson
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
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We are deeply sorry for your loss ~ the staff at Allen Chapel
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The family of Susan Kaminski Wilson uploaded a photo
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
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