Judge Richard C. Wilbur

Judge Richard C. Wilbur was, and still is, a very special individual who was so loved and thought of by so many people. I can remember so many stories of my secretarial work with him. They are still in my memory. Because of his brilliance and everything he taught me when I was his secretary, the positions I gained after he left the Court were Blessed by all I learned from him. I have the book he wrote "Just Below the Surface," and read passages from it when I feel I need to put some...

I just now learned of the death of former Tax Court Judge Richard C. Wilbur. I was his secretary when he was appointed to the Court. To this day, I have always remembered him as an individual with so much kindness, and a man whose brain was way beyond smart. He was totally respected by every individual on the Court. Everyone felt such a loss when he had to retire because of his medical issues. To Jean, Carl and Shelley, I still remember all of you and I would like to express my sincere...

On behalf of John Francis Clausmans family aka Moke a childhood friend of Dicks our family sends our deepest condolences on the loss of your Husband , father, brother. When our Dad passed away in 1997 Mr. Wilbur wrote the most beautiful article about his friendship with our father. Something we will treasure our whole lives. His words so kind and eloquent. We are hoping they are reunited on a warm basketball court having a one on one. And that together they are once again tearing up that...

I knew Judge Wilbur when he was a new member of the Tax Court and I clerked for another judge. Although we were not close, I had occasion to talk with him about cases, and appreciated his intelligence, his judgment, and his openness. I felt then he was destined to be one of the great judges of the court. I was saddened when he was forced by health issues to retire, but now I am learning about his great success as a writer in "retirement". Life takes strange turns, but I don't doubt that his...

a donation was made to the Friends of Otisville School in Dick's honor. I am Donna Wilbur's sister in law (Jamie's Weiner's sister). My condolences to the entire Wilbur family. I never got to meet Dick but heard so much about him from family members.

1947. I came to Otisville Union Free School from a one room schoolhouse in Greenville. I was in Seventh grade , Dick was still "downstairs", in sixth grade. Among our teachers were his Aunt Ethyl Breen and his Uncle Sherman Wilbur, his success as a scholar had deep roots.
After High School, Dick worked summers with me at Otisville Training School, in the Recreation area. A truck was badly damaged by driving it under a ramp , the next day no one knew anything!
Years later I met...