PHILIP ESCO WILSON WAS BORN NOVEMBER 24, 1947 IN BAIRDSTOWN, PA. HE WAS THE YOUNGEST CHILD BORN TO THE LATE ESCO JULIUS WILSON AND THE LATE PAULINE BRACY WILSON. PHILIP ENTERED ETERNAL LIFE ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2020 AT ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HOSPITAL IN NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ. PHILIP GRADUATED WITH HIGH HONORS IN 1965 FROM DERRY AREA HIGH SCHOOL, DERRY, PA IN 1965. IN HIGH SCHOOL, HE WAS ACTIVE IN SPORTS AND THE DRAMA CLUB, STARING IN SEVERAL HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS. HE FURTHERED HIS EDUCATION BY COMPLETING A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS AT POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, FOLLOWED BY A MASTER’S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN NEW JERSEY. PHILIP HAD A BRILLIANT MIND AND A VERY HUMBLE SPIRIT. HE WORKED AS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST AT IBM AND BELLCORE AND TAUGHT ADVANCED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AT DEVRY INSTITUTE AND LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BOTH LOCATED IN QUEENS, NEW YORK. HE AUTHORED HIS OWN MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK SO HIS STUDENTS COULD BETTER UNDERESTAND THE CONCEPTS. HE MARRIED SHARLINE JACOB WILSON ON DECEMBER 26, 1990 AND FROM THAT UNION WERE BORN TWO LOVING DAUGHTERS: KENDRA WILSON NORIEGA AND JILLIAN WILSON, BOTH OF DELAWARE AND FROM A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE WAS BORN A DEVOTED SON, ESCO WILSON OF NEW YORK. PHILIP LOVED SPORTS AND WAS A DEVOTED PITTSBURGH STEELERS FAN AND HE ALSO ENJOYED BASKETBALL, ADMIRING THE SKILL AND RESPECT LEBRON JAMES AND THE LATE KOBE BRYANT BROUGHT TO THE GAME. HE NEVER FORGOT HIS FIRST PITTSBURGH PIRATES BASEBALL GAME AT THE AGE OF 11. HE TOLD THAT EXPERIENCE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. HE ALSO LEARNED TO PLAY A DECENT GAME OF GOLF FROM HIS OLDER SISTER DOLORES HARRISON PHILIP IS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS ESCO AND PAULINE WILSON, HIS SISTER BARBARA SIBBLIS AND BROTHER JOHN WILSON. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE SHARLINE JACOB-WILSON, SON ESCO WILSON, DAUGHTERS KENDRA (KEVIN) NORIEGA AND JILLIAN WILSON, MOTHER-IN-LAW DARLINE JACOB, GRANDSON KAIDEN NORIEGA, SISTER-IN-LAW DEIDRE (MARK) BALL, BROTHER DR. WILLIAM (JO) WILSON, SISTERS JANICE (CARL) HARRISON AND DR. AUDREY HARRIGAN; NEPHEWS SEAN RICHARD HARRIGAN, RODNEY (LAPRENA) HARRISON, CARTER WILSON; NIECES NICOLE (CHRISTOPHER) WOODLEY, TARYN SIBBLIS, COLLEEN (ROBERT) LARSON, LISA WILSON, PAULA WILSON, BROTHER-IN-LAW BARRY SIBBLIS, AS WELL AS A HOST OF OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.