Jim Wilson Passes
Jim enjoyed many things in life hunting fishing and most of all carving waterfowl! He was able to carve some of the best waterfowl decoys that are dotted across the country. He won the Wards World Championship in 1992 with a great Mallard!
Over the years he won at the North American Decoy Championship, the Ohio Decoy Carvers and Collectors Decoy Show, the Maumee Bay Carving Show and many others!
Best of all Jim became an instructor of waterfowl carving, when he bought the Governors Inn, which was operated as fine restaurant. Jim was spent most of his life in the restaurant business serving people with great food. His love of sharing his talents with others on the third floor of the Inn. He invited his friends to join him carving decoys. It was this room that may be one of the places Jim will visit when he has chance in the future. One evening we learned that when Jim was leaving he noticed the lights were on in the carving room! He asked his son who was with him,
“Did you leave the lights on? Mike replied with surprise, “I shut them off! “ Must be the ghosts at work!
We talked about the ghosts that were in the building, who Jim believed were there! On in particular was a young girl who would go around the restaurant areas and would touch the coins that were left for the servers. A team of ghost busters came in to visit the Inn and we toured the attic floor, the third floor and then second floor! The ghost buster asked to be silent, as she believed that there was a something that she felt was there! Seeing nothing we went to the main level and then she heard something on her machine to indicate there were sounds of ghosts, later we learned there were indeed sounds and more importantly orbs of light near the ceiling of the Inn!
Jim spent much of the time turning out new carvers! He was responsible for having a Kids painting seminar for many years at the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carving show. Over years many of children learned about the love of waterfowl from Jim and his team of helpers.
Jim made many friends over the years from all over the country! He would spend time with them looking at their waterfowl and learning and offering comments.
I believe that Jim will return to Governors Inn and join with the others who are in spirit only causing a bit of fracas,
We will miss you and hope maybe to join you in the Carving Hall of Fame, as I am sure there will be one! Maybe just sitting and carving in third floor carving room!
Bob Lund
Jim enjoyed many things in life hunting fishing and most of all carving waterfowl! He was able to carve some of the best waterfowl decoys that are dotted across the country. He won the Wards World Championship in 1992 with a great Mallard!
Over the years he won at the North American Decoy Championship, the Ohio Decoy Carvers and Collectors Decoy Show, the Maumee Bay Carving Show and many others!
Best of all Jim became an instructor of waterfowl carving, when he bought the Governors Inn, which was operated as fine restaurant. Jim was spent most of his life in the restaurant business serving people with great food. His love of sharing his talents with others on the third floor of the Inn. He invited his friends to join him carving decoys. It was this room that may be one of the places Jim will visit when he has chance in the future. One evening we learned that when Jim was leaving he noticed the lights were on in the carving room! He asked his son who was with him,
“Did you leave the lights on? Mike replied with surprise, “I shut them off! “ Must be the ghosts at work!
We talked about the ghosts that were in the building, who Jim believed were there! On in particular was a young girl who would go around the restaurant areas and would touch the coins that were left for the servers. A team of ghost busters came in to visit the Inn and we toured the attic floor, the third floor and then second floor! The ghost buster asked to be silent, as she believed that there was a something that she felt was there! Seeing nothing we went to the main level and then she heard something on her machine to indicate there were sounds of ghosts, later we learned there were indeed sounds and more importantly orbs of light near the ceiling of the Inn!
Jim spent much of the time turning out new carvers! He was responsible for having a Kids painting seminar for many years at the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carving show. Over years many of children learned about the love of waterfowl from Jim and his team of helpers.
Jim made many friends over the years from all over the country! He would spend time with them looking at their waterfowl and learning and offering comments.
I believe that Jim will return to Governors Inn and join with the others who are in spirit only causing a bit of fracas,
We will miss you and hope maybe to join you in the Carving Hall of Fame, as I am sure there will be one! Maybe just sitting and carving in third floor carving room!
Bob Lund
Who is in the picture besides Bob?
The Maumee Bay Carvers at the 2013 Apple Butter Festival - Steve Secord, Mark Langenderpher, Bob Lund and Garrett Secord Photo taken by Karen Higgins
Chris Wilson, Jane Boone and Steve Secord drying shorebirds for the kids at the Apple Butter Festival
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 Kids Painting Shorebirds at the Apple Butter Festival 2011 Grand Rapids, OH
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Luke Costilow Rendering the Blue Bill
Marks Class Bird
Students with Finished Birds
Blue Bird Class at Sanger Library, Toledo, OH conducted by Jeff Thomas, Michelle Thomas and Bob Lund
Joey and his Blue Bird with Bob Lund