Randy Keith Wilson

Randy Keith Wilson

NORFOLK — Randy Keith Wilson, 67, a lifelong area resident, passed away on Oct. 30, 2020, with family and friends by his side, following a short battle with cancer. 

Randy was born on Dec. 3, 1952, in Sharon. He was the son of the late Agnes E. (Traver) and Richard Albert Wilson of Lakeville. 

After his mother’s death in 1962, he was raised by his sister, Mary Sager, in Cornwall Bridge.

Randy attended Salisbury Central School and then Cornwall Consolidated School and graduated from Housatonic Valley Regional High School in 1974.

Randy worked for about 20 years at Kent Manufacturing in Kent. 

He enjoyed working on everyone’s cars and trucks, watching wrestling on television and going to wrestling matches. Randy also loved spending time with his extended family and friends.

Randy is survived by a brother, Charles R. Wilson of Torrington; his sisters, Marcia E. Audia, Dorothy Therrien and her husband, Robert, all of Beverly Hills, Fla., Mary A. Sager, Linda Cavanaugh and her husband, Gordon, all of Cornwall Bridge, and many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and -nephews and cousins. He is also survived by his extended family, DeeDe Gordon-Taylor and her children, Tessa, Kira, Rory and Sam “his bestest buddy” Taylor.

In addition to his parents, he was also predeceased by eight brothers, Larry, Billy, Johnny, Joe, Paul, Bobby, Jerry and David; and a sister, Cindy.

The family would like to thank DeeDe and her family and the Foothills VNA for all their support during this time.

There are no calling hours. Funeral services and burial (the Rev. Lee Gangaware officiating) will take place in the spring of 2021 at Irondale Cemetery in Millerton and will be announced on the funeral home website. Memorial contributions may be made to the Norfolk Volunteer Fire Dept., 20 Shepard Road, Norfolk, CT 06058; or the Canaan Fire Company, P.O. Box 642, North Canaan, CT 06018. 

Arrangements are under the direction of the Scott D. Conklin Funeral Home in Millerton. To send an online condolence, go to www.conklinfuneralhome.com.

Latest News

South Kent School’s unofficial March reunion

Elmarko Jackson was named a 2023 McDonald’s All American in his senior year at South Kent School. He helped lead the Cardinals to a New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC) AAA title victory and was recruited to play at the University of Kansas. This March he will play point guard for the Jayhawks when they enter the tournament as a No. 4 seed against (13) Samford University.

Riley Klein

SOUTH KENT — March Madness will feature seven former South Kent Cardinals who now play on Division 1 NCAA teams.

The top-tier high school basketball program will be well represented with graduates from each of the past three years heading to “The Big Dance.”

Keep ReadingShow less
Hotchkiss grads dancing with Yale

Nick Townsend helped Yale win the Ivy League.

Screenshot from ESPN+ Broadcast

LAKEVILLE — Yale University advanced to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a buzzer-beater win over Brown University in the Ivy League championship game Sunday, March 17.

On Yale’s roster this year are two graduates of The Hotchkiss School: Nick Townsend, class of ‘22, and Jack Molloy, class of ‘21. Townsend wears No. 42 and Molloy wears No. 33.

Keep ReadingShow less
Handbells of St. Andrew’s to ring out Easter morning

Anne Everett and Bonnie Rosborough wait their turn to sound notes as bell ringers practicing to take part in the Easter morning service at St. Andrew’s Church.

Kathryn Boughton

KENT—There will be a joyful noise in St. Andrew’s Church Easter morning when a set of handbells donated to the church some 40 years ago are used for the first time by a choir currently rehearsing with music director Susan Guse.

Guse said that the church got the valuable three-octave set when Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center closed in the late 1980s and the bells were donated to the church. “The center used the bells for music therapy for younger patients. Our priest then was chaplain there and when the center closed, he brought the bells here,” she explained.

Keep ReadingShow less
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Penguin Random House

‘Picasso’s War” by Foreign Affairs senior editor Hugh Eakin, who has written about the art world for publications like The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York Times, is not about Pablo Picasso’s time in Nazi-occupied Paris and being harassed by the Gestapo, nor about his 1937 oil painting “Guernica,” in response to the aerial bombing of civilians in the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

Instead, the Penguin Random House book’s subtitle makes a clearer statement of intent: “How Modern Art Came To America.” This war was not between military forces but a cultural war combating America’s distaste for the emerging modernism that had flourished in Europe in the early decades of the 20th century.

Keep ReadingShow less