Hurricane, Utah – Irwin Don Wiser, 78, passed away May 2, 2016. He was born February 15, 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah to William Don and Gretta Rawlings Wiser. He married Carol Lynne Haight on August 31, 1962 in Burley, Idaho and was later divorced. He married Rosario "Rosie" Perez on October 6, 1967 in Anchorage, Alaska and was later divorced.

Irwin graduated from Brigham Young High School with the Class of 1956. In September 1957, following enlistment in the Utah Air Nation Guard and active-duty training at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, he became a full-time employee of the Utah Air National Guard as a Radar Maintenance Technician working alternately at Salt Lake International Airport Air Guard Facility and the Francis Peak Radar Site.

In August 1966, Irwin went to Anchorage, Alaska accepting a position as an Electronic Technical Representative with the Alaskan Air Command Ground Radar Maintenance Group headquarters at the Elmendorf Air Base, Alaska.

Irwin became an employee of the Atlantic Richfield Company in May 1976, working fourteen of his sixteen year ARCO employment at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Following retirement in 1993, he relocated from Anchorage to Hurricane, Utah.

Irwin was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Van Rawlings Wiser. He is survived by his sister, Marcia Wiser (Brent E.) Boyack; brother, William Lee "Bill" (JoAnn Soria) Wiser; and sister-in-law, Sharon Jean Pugmire Wiser.