sentences:  After his retirement from the Army, Wilby was appointed as a chairman of the New York Power Authority and served in this capacity until 1950.Then he worked as a consultant engineer of the Knappen Tibbetts Abbeit Company until his final retirement in 1952.Wilby died on November 20, 1965, at the age of 82 in Asheville, North Carolina, and is buried at United States Military Academy Post Cemetery in West Point, New York, together with his wife Dorothy Langfitt (1887–1948).