Stanley M. Wilner

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Stanley M. Wilner, 90, of Bluffton, South Carolina and a longtime resident of Portland, Maine died in Savannah, Georgia on July 13, 2021. Stanley was born on March 27, 1931, in Stoneham, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Ida Wilner and grew up in Auburn, Maine. He attended both Edward Little High School and Hebron Academy where he was active in sports including football, basketball, and swimming, after which he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He left school in 1952, during the Korean War, to enter the army. He was trained at Ft. Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts and was subsequently stationed at Wildwood Army Station in Kenai, Alaska working for the Army Security Agency on military intelligence.

Before heading to Alaska, in 1953 he married Phyllis Zallen of Lewiston, Maine, and she joined him in Alaska shortly after he arrived. In 1954 he was discharged from the army and settled in Brighton, Massachusetts where he attended Wentworth Technical Institute. He then returned to Auburn, Maine, where he joined the family business, Wilner Wood Products, until he left to go into business on his own. In 1969 Stanley moved to Portland, Maine, where he led a successful business, named Wilner Associates and later known as Wilner-Greene Associates, a distributor of medical acoustic instrumentation. Stanley was a longtime active member of the Kiwanis, an international service club, in Portland. After retirement, he settled in Sun City Hilton Head, in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Stanley is survived by his wife, Phyllis Zallen Wilner; his children Rhoda Wilner, Kenneth (Debra) Wilner, and Karen Wilner Lavi; his grandchildren, Faith Wilner, Adam Wilner, Elana Wilner and Elya Lavi; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by three brothers, Burton, Charles, and Richard Wilner and four sisters, Avis Schwartz, Elinor Goldblatt, June Chason and Ruth Schloss. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Temple Shalom Synagogue, Auburn, Maine. Memories may be shared at http://www.albert-burpee.com.