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- 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.
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