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Bryan Wilson

New Shoreham, Rhode Island

1962 - 2023

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In the early morning hours of May 5, 2023, Bryan Keith Wilson, 61, of Block Island, R.I., passed away while surrounded by his loving family. His passing comes after an 18-month long fight with stage IV prostate cancer. Bryan was born in Summit, N.J., to Donald Keith Wilson and Julia Ann Wilson...

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Bryan was working with Rob Closter building houses in 1987 when we first had the pleasure of meeting him. Before going back to school for his graduate architecture degree, he completed designing our house on Coast Guard Road from my sketch of a floor plan and proceeded to work with Rob constructing it, overlooking the Great Salt Pond. I'll never forget him having to adjust the height of windows to accommodate our much shorter statures! He was a wonderful person to work with and such an...

For about ten years, as an Oceanography teacher from Connecticut, I would bring my classes for a special day of study at Block Island each Fall. Bryan always took the time out of his busy schedule to share "Deep Water Wind" progress with my classes each year outside on that Southeast Light bluff. I was so happy that at that last class before I retired, he was able to proudly look out on those beloved offshore Wind Turbines. Block Island has lost a "treasure" of a man! My sincere...

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I met and worked with Bryan during the construction of the BIWF. He was a great man and I learned a lot about Block Island from him. Our prayer to his family for their great loss.