By Deb Patterson
InkFreeNews

Tracy Cutler Wilson

LEESBURG — Tracy Cutler Wilson is no stranger to what occurs within the Kosciusko County Coroner’s Office. She had spent over 20 years in that office helping in various capacities.

Wilson is seeking the Republican nomination as county coroner and filed for office on Friday, Jan. 12.

She is a certified death investigator and has been involved in over 500 cases. Those cases have included deaths which were accidental, suicide, homicide, natural and undetermined.

She also has all the necessary trainings required to work in the coroner’s office. If elected coroner, Wilson will automatically be a member of the child fatality review committee and the coalition on drug education. She has also kept up, at her own expense, her medical legal death investigator certification.

She is a 20-year nationally registered paramedic and was a victim’s advocate in the county for 10 years. Additionally, she has over 10 years of care and compassionate training.

“I would like to get back into the office, to continue to help people in their worst time,” Wilson said.

Wilson and her husband, Mike, who was county coroner for a number of years and then became a deputy coroner, had worked in the coroner’s office until the new coroner took office Jan. 1, 2023, and they lost her job.

Wilson is a county native. She grew up in Atwood and graduated from Warsaw High School.

She was in 4-H showing beef cattle.

Her parents are Jim and the late Ona Boggs and her grandparents were Freddy and Doris Boggs and Zeke Irwin, Atwood.

Should she win the nomination and get elected, she wants to continue to try to curb the overdose epidemic. When she worked in the coroner’s office she was active in suicide intervention.

Currently Wilson runs with Parkview in the Community Paramedic program, which does follow-up care on patients.

Wilson and her husband reside east of Leesburg.