Wilkes, Roscoe
Description
Roscoe Wilkes was born in Bonanza, Colorado on Janruary 25, 1918. He moved with his family to Pioche, Nevada in 1927. He was a lead zinc miner, a grade school teacher, and a PBX operator before he enlisted in the military during World War II. Wilkes was a prisoner of war in Romania. He got a law degree and went back to Pioche where he was a district attorney and later a judge. He spent 18 years in Seattle, Washington as a federal administrative law judge, hearing cases prosecuted by the Coast Guard, until he retired in 1990 and moved to Boulder City, Nevada.
