Tim Wilkerson

•March 21 2018•

By R.R. Best
News Progress Publisher

That was Tim Wilkerson’s greeting to all of us when he walked in the front door of the News Progress. And, of course, his was the biggest smile.

Tim and I would spend many hours sitting in the front office of the paper discussing the different ways we could fix all the problems of the county, city and, especially the newspaper, as customers would come and go. Our favorite argument was that of Windows versus Macintosh computers. Most who knew Tim knew he was a computer guru. He ran his own computer fix-it business after his retirement from the service, which is what brought him into our office that first day.

That day was right after the death of my father, Robert E. Best, back in 1993.

I had no knowledge of computers or spreadsheets or tax prep or all the other things it takes to run a business. Nor did my mother, except that she could write stories for the paper on her Mac. Tim was our lifesaver.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.