Wilce was survived by his wife, Minerva Connor Wilce, sons Jay and James M. "Jim" Wilce (1922–1988), and daughters Roseanne Wilce Pearcy and Dorothy Wilce Krause, along with many grandchildren, amongst whom are the nationally known sports and outdoors photographer Anne Krause (1952–2006) and James M. "Jim" Wilce, Jr., a linguistic anthropologist at Northern Arizona University.
anthropology | Anthropology | Neuro-linguistic programming | Linguistic Society of America | neuro-linguistic programming | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | Linguistic Typology | Linguistic typology | linguistic anthropology | Forensic anthropology | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | Moscow State Linguistic University | medical anthropology | linguistic reconstruction | Linguistic purism | Linguistic description | International School of Theatre Anthropology | economic anthropology | Current Anthropology | urban anthropology | Symbolic linguistic representation | Society for Applied Anthropology | NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) | Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) | Neuro-Linguistic Programming | Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge | Medical anthropology | linguistic typology | linguistic turn |
She has worked with descriptive linguistics writing a grammar of the Cupeño language, and has contributed to the fields of linguistic anthropology and socio-linguistics with her works about Nahuatl and about the linguistic expressions of racism towards Spanish-speakers in the American Southwest in her works about mock Spanish.