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- Watertown NY Daily Timers - 6/27/1975
LORRAINE - George H.
Bilkey, 89, died Thursday
at the Ruth Brown Adult
Home, Adams Center!
where he had been a patient
for one year.
The funeral will be 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Piddock Funeral
Home with the Rev.
David Bergner, pastor of
the Lorraine and Mannsville
United Methodist
churches, officiating. Burial
will be in Rural Cemetery,
Adams. Calling hours
are Saturday at the funeral
home from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Survivors include one
daughter, Mrs. Donald (Arlene)
Moore, Lorraine; four
stepsons, Gary Brown,
Adams Center; Allen
Brown, Watertown; Austin
Brown, Potsdam, and
Lewis Brown, Adams; 13
grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren.
Mr. Bilkey was born June
20,1886, in the Town of Lorraine,
son of Henry P. and
Anna Fee Bilkey. He married
Ethel Caulkins June
28, 1916. She died April 26,
1924. He and Mrs. Blanche
Brown were wed March 12,
1956. She died Aug. 5, 1963.
He operated farms in the
Lorraine area until his retirement
and was town supervisor
from 1921-1937. He
attended Lorraine United
Methodist Church and was
a 50-year member of the
Lorraine Grange.
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