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- Niagara Gazette - 12/16/1961
N E W FA N E - Alfred Wilkins.
64, of 2662 VanHorn
Ave. died Friday (Dec. 15,
1961) at Veterans Administration
Hospital, Buffalo, after
a week's illness.
As a young man, Mr. Wil>
° kins was associated with Ernest
P. Duncan in the furniture
business here. He then
J worked at the Harrison Radia.
| tor Division of General Moj
tors Corp.. Lockport, for 23
j years. Since then, he had
!bccn employed at Newfanc
| Lumber Co.
Born in the Town of Porter,
Feb. 9, 1897, Mr. Wilkins was
(a son of L o u i s and Rose
1 Schultz Wilkins. He resided
in the Town of Newfanc since
!his early childhood. In 1918,
he married Marion Seely, who
survives.
Also surviving arc a daughter.
Mrs. Richard (Jane) Paulz,
Sao Paulo, Brazil; a son, Alfred
Louis Wilkins, at home;
two grandchildren, Maryann
and David Paulz, Brazil; a
brother, Ellis Wilkins, Reno,
Nev.; and two sisters, Mrs.
Ellsworth Shaw, Niagara
Falls, and mrs. Theodore
Rush, Newfane.
Friends may call after 7
o'clock tonight at the Sherrie
Funeral Home, where services
will be conducted at 2 p.m
Monday by Rev. Walter
Greenawalt, pastor of First
Baptist Church, of which Mr.
Wilkins was a member. Burial
will be in Corwin Cemetery.
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