George Wallace Wolf's Obituary
George Wolf, 94, of Fredericksburg, VA, passed away from cancer on July 9, 2024.
George was born in Valley Stream, NY on September 7, 1929. After service in the U.S. Army, he met his wife, Georgiana, and they married in 1960. Shortly after they both moved to Smithtown, NY. He resided there for 32 years, raising his family, while working first in construction as a carpenter and later at SUNY Stony Brook as a technical assistant. After retiring from his job, he spent extensive time rebuilding a foreclosure home his daughter Pamela had purchased on Long Island. He and his wife moved to Wilmington, NC in 1995. As a resident there he was a multiple medalist at the Senior Games and also a senior softball player on the Roosters team. After about 13 years they then moved again, this time northward, to Fredericksburg, VA where had resided for the last 15 years, spending significant time playing dominoes and solving crossword and sudoku puzzles.
He is remembered as an affable, strong, frank, and hard-working, if messy, man who was an avid model railroader. He had an extensive layout that at one point required cutting a small hole in a wall into an adjacent room. When his wife voiced dismay at this plan, “the turn radius requires that” was his mild-mannered reply. He was also a quiet man who once left his newlywed wife in a hilly, tree filled lot with four stakes and a lump hammer and said, “Here dear, mark out where to put the house.” Drafted into the US Army he served in post-war Germany where he travelled to many areas of Germany. In all, he visited 42 countries on six continents during his lifetime.
Other interests included: bicycling, skiing, reading and fall Sundays were often devoted to watching football and rooting for his beloved New England Patriots. He built four houses and was an expert vegetable gardener, improving the soils at all of the residences he owned. George was a man of many skills who customized all the houses he lived in, including the implementation of his wife’s design ideas. He spoiled his family with his ability to fix nearly anything.
He leaves behind a loving wife of more than 64 years, Georgiana; two children, Pamela and Dwight; and a collection of well-loved blueberry bushes.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to St Jude Children’s Hospital (stjude.org).
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