David Marshall Wilder

David Marshall Wilder, 85, of Peterborough, Hancock, and most recently of Englewood, FL, passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at the Jack Byrnes Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. David was born in Peterborough, on January 19, 1939, to the late Marshall Peterson Wilder and Edith Theodate Baldwin. He graduated from Peterborough Consolidated School, class of 1956, and continued his education at the University of New Hampshire and Keene Teachers College. In 1963 David, along with his father, founded Wilder Motors, Inc., beginning on upper Union Street in Peterborough, and later on Concord Street, selling Buick, Saab, Opel, and Kubota tractor until its closing in 1980. David continued his work in automobile sales with Tulley Buick in Nashua, and worked in advertising sales for Keene Shopper News, and Newton Studios in Englewood, FL until his retirement. In the 1970s David served on the Hancock Planning Board and the Hancock Board of Selectmen, the North Shore Buick Club...