1. | WILKINS, Elmer A was born on 31 Oct 1887 in New York (son of WILKINS, Augustine and BEHNKE, Ernestine Friederike); died on 14 Oct 1967 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Niagara Gazette - 10/16/1967
NEWFANE-Elmer A. Wilkins, 79, of 4031 Daniels
Road, Ransomville, , died Saturday (Oct. 14, 1967)
at Mount View Hospital, Lockport, where he had been
a patient for 11 days. He had been in ill health since
April.
He was born in 1887 in New
fane, the son of August and Ernestine
Behnae Wilkins. On Dec.
15, 1909 he married Miss Edith
Schultz at North Ridge..
Mr. Wilkins had been'a farmer
all of his life, the last 35
years in Daniels Road.
He was a member of St. Peter
Lutheran Church. North Ridge.
Besides his widow, Edith, he
is survived by one daughter,
' Mrs. Van (Edna) Miles of Ransomville;
two sons, Elton and
Harold of Lockport; seven
grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren;
two sisters, Mrs.
Winella Goodlander of Lockport
and Mrs. Florence Wyman of
Newfane; two brothers, Willis
Wilkins of Spencerport and August
Wilkins.of Newfane.
Friends may call at the Rutland
Corwin Funeral Home,
Main Street, where the family
will be present from 2 to 4 p.m.
and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Tues-
day.
Funeral" services will be held
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St.
Peter Lutheran Church, North
Ridge, with burial in St. Peter
Lutheran Cemetery.
The family said that contributions
to the memorial fund of
St. Peter Lutheran Church or
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
will be acceptable as tributes.
Elmer married SCHULTZ, Edith on 15 Dec 1909 in North Ridge, Town of Cambria, Niagara County, NY. Edith (daughter of SCHULTZ, Ernst Friedrich Erhardt and MEIER, Caroline) was born about 1889 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
Niagara Gazette - 12/7/1959
NORTH RIDGE-Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A. Wilkins
will welcome relatives and friends from 3 to 7 p.m.
Sunday at. St. Peter's Lutheran Parish Hall, North
Ridge, in celebration of their golden wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins,
Daniels Rd.. were married
Dec. 15, 1909 at the St.
Peter's Lutheran parsonage.
The anniversary celebration
is being arranged by
the couples three children,
Elton and Harold Wilkins,
Church Rd., Lockport, and
Mrs. Van Miles, Daniels Rd.,
Ransomville. There are seven
grandchildren.
Children:
- WILKINS, Elton K was born on 4 Jul 1910 in New York; died on 8 Mar 1995 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
- WILKINS, Edna was born on 11 Mar 1913 in New York; died on 11 Jun 2010 in Town of Newfane, Niagara County, NY.
- WILKINS, Harold E was born on 27 May 1915 in Town of Newfane, Niagara County, NY; died on 10 Jan 2012 in Town of Cambria, Niagara County, NY.
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