Stanley Milton Wick, Jr., 86, of East Greenwich, R.I. died June 29 at home. The cause was heart failure.
Named for Henry Morton Stanley, the explorer and journalist and John Milton, the poet of Paradise Lost, he was born in New York, July 29, 1921 to Stanley Milton Wick and Gladys Van Buskirk Wick.
He graduated from Great Neck High School, and attended New York University before going into the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served with distinction in WWII as a ball turret gunner with the B-17 Powerful Katrinka , part of the 379th bomber group which flew out of Kimbolton, England. He flew 32 combat missions, including the famous Schweinfurt raids. He received, in addition to other decorations, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Bronze Stars. His rank was Staff Sergeant.
After the war, he was employed by John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company in Boston, Mass. and attended Nichols College.
He married Elizabeth Dearborn Wick in November 1947 and had two sons, Charles Dearborn Wick and Stanley Milton Wick, III.
In 1956 he became a representative of the Johns-Manville Sales Corporation selling sewer and water pipe to municipalities in Rhode Island, Eastern Connecticut and Southeastern Massachusetts. In 1957 he moved with his family to Rhode Island, first to the Oaklawn section of Cranston and then East Greenwich, and finally Potowomut. After retiring from Johns-Manville he was employed by Keyes Engineering for several years.
In 1987 he began to live part of the year in Damariscotta and last visited there in March of this year. He was a member of two luncheon groups there and was a regular at Waltz s Drug Store.
He was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth and his parents and sister, Thelma Meyer of Long Island, N.Y.
He died at his home in Potowomut, R.I. attended by his two sons.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 7, Edgecomb, ME 04556, or the Providence Animal Rescue League, 34 Elbow St., Providence, RI 02903.
