Chester Dean Wiggington

Friends in Baltimore remember Chester Dean Wiggington, who died on September 23, 2026 at 76. Born in Baltimore on January 17, 1950; Puerto Rican cooking and payday thrift set the tone of the house. Young, he understood that quiet competence outlasts loud plans. He ran beaters that turned trees into tomorrow's paper without waste theater. A beater-room earplug tin rode his belt like a badge. Colleagues still mention a beater-room earplug tin. He married Helen in 1975. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised three sons through public schools and ordinary weather. After Helen died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember a wave from the driveway that meant you were seen. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Baltimore, among streets he never needed to explain. The garden will come up next spring without being told.