Lt. Orme Wilson, Jr., USN

Obituary from Washington Post:

Orme Wilson Jr., 70, a retired Foreign Service officer and president of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, died of a heart attack March 30 at his farm at White Post, Va.

Mr. Wilson was born in New York City and grew up in a Foreign Service family in Washington and elsewhere. He graduated from Harvard. During World War II, he was a pilot in the Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.

After the war, he was a pilot for Pan American Airways. In 1948, he went to work for the Army Map Service in Washington, and in 1951 he was commissioned in the Foreign Service.

His posts abroad included Frankfurt, West Germany, Southampton, England, Belgrade and Athens. From 1970 to 1974, he was consul general in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. He then served at the United Nations. His last assignment was as political counselor in the U.S. Mission to NATO headquarters in Brussels. He retired in 1980.

An owner of thoroughbred racehorses, Mr. Wilson was a past director of Laurel Race Course. He had been president of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association since last year. He was a tennis player and a former chairman of the Prentice Cup Committee, which arranges matches between Yale and Harvard and Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Mr. Wilson was a member of the Chevy Chase Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the Racquet and Tennis and Brook clubs in New York. He also had been a member of the board of the Seamen's Church Institute in New York.

Survivors include his wife, Mildred Dunn Wilson of White Post; three children, Marshall Wilson of Mobile, Ala., Elsie Wilson Thompson of Charlottesville and Orme Wilson III of Louisville; and seven grandchildren.