--383725224.954445928790.JavaMail.root@web16.pub01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, Attached is the Obituary of John Cornish Wilkinson, Jr.; s/o John Cornish Wilkinson, Sr. and Lily Clark of Edisto Island, S.C., and my mother's first cousin. I would like to extend a special thank-you to Jan Dool, one of the Norfolk, Va. "genealogical angels" for doing the lookup for me. She went above and beyond the call of duty, sending me copies not only of the obit, but the interment card from Forest Lawn and copies of some of his columns in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. I had searched for him for so long, getting no response whatsoever to my inquiries to the Virginian-Pilot, and found her quite by accident while searching for info on him. Hats off to you, Jan, and all the other "angels" out there who have helped me and others to find info we could never have found otherwise. NOTE: John Cornish Wilkinson, Jr. was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery on October 1, 1971 in 63 Glock 24 Locust (Single Grave) Adult. Deborah Aldridge ................................................................................. iWon.com http://www.iwon.com why wouldn't you? ................................................................................. --383725224.954445928790.JavaMail.root@web16.pub01 Content-Type: text/richtext; name=jcwilkinson.obit.rtf Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=jcwilkinson.obit.rtf Content-ID: jcwilkinson.obit.rtf {\rtf1\ansi \deff0{\fonttbl{\f16\froman Times New Roman;}{\f8\fswiss Arial;= }{\f17\froman Symbol;}{\f18\fnil Wingdings;}{\f19\froman Wingdings 2;}}{\co= lortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue255;\red0= \green255\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue0;\red255\green25= 5\blue0;\red128\green128\blue128;\red255\green255\blue255;\red0\green0\blue= 128;\red0\green128\blue128;\red0\green128\blue0;\red128\green0\blue128;\red= 128\green0\blue0;\red192\green192\blue192;\red0\green0\blue0;}\margl1440\ma= rgr1440\paperh15842\paperw12242\viewkind1\ftnbj \sectd\headery0\footery1225= {\header \pard \tqc\tx4320\tqr\tx8640 \plain\f16 \par }{\footer \pard \tqc\= tx4320\tqr\tx8640 \plain\f16 \par }\pard \plain\f8\fs28 From the Norfolk, V= A Virginian-Pilot Newspaper, September 29, 1971\tab \plain\b\f8\fs28 \par \= par \'91Whimsey parade\'92 author, Wilkie, dies\par \par \plain\f8\fs28 NOR= FOLK - John Cornish Wilkinson, 54, a veteran Norfolk newspaperman, died at = 6:40 a.m. today in Norfolk General Hospital.\par \tab Wilkinson, under the = pen name Wilkie, wrote the humorous column, \'93Whimsey Parade,\'94 for the= Virginian-Pilot.\par \tab He suffered a stroke two weeks ago. He became i= ll several weeks ago but insisted on sticking to his job until he was force= d to submit to hospitalization.\par \tab Wilkinson had been in journalism s= ince his college days at Clemson University. In World War II, when he was = an army officer, he was assigned to the Stars and Stripes, the Army newspap= er, in Europe.\par \tab Wilkinson was widely known for his column in the Vi= rginian-Pilot. In addition to writing the column, Wilkinson was a Pilot co= py editor.\par \tab He was born in Portsmouth, the son of John Cornish Wilk= inson, Sr. and Mrs. Lily Clark Wilkinson, on June 14, 1917. He grew up in = Spartanburg, S.C., where his family moved when he was a child and where his= father was president of the Smith-Wilkinson Guano Co.\par \tab Wilkinson w= as graduated in 1938 from Clemson with a bachelor\'92s degree in journalism= and a second lieutenant\'92s commission in the Army Reserve. As a sophomo= re at Clemson, he played in the backfield of the football team, but the fol= lowing year he joined the staff of the college paper.\par \tab In 1938 he b= ecame editor of the Seneca, S.C., Journal; in 1940 telegraph editor of the = Florence, S.C., Evening Star, and in 1941, a reporter for the Virginian-Pil= ot.\par \tab In February 1942 he went on active duty with the Army, plannin= g to train as a tank officer. He was assigned instead to The Stars and Str= ipes for which he wrote a column called \'93Hashmarks.\'94 For a year afte= r the war ended he taught journalism at the Army\'92s Biarritz, France, Ame= rican University.\par \tab In 1946 he returned to the Virginian-Pilot and h= is activities included preparing \'93Whimsey Parade\'94.\par \tab Wilkinson= retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel.\par \tab He was a m= ember and former deacon of Freemason Street Baptist Church, where he taught= the Melton Bible Class. He enjoyed a reputation as an after-dinner speake= r.\par \tab He belonged to Sigma Delta Chi National Journalistic Society; t= he Overseas Press Club, the Mallory Country Club, the 29th Division Officer= s Club and the Norfolk Talent Workshop.\par \tab He is survived by his wido= w, the former Francis Farr Richardson; a daughter, Miss Virginia Jeannette = Wilkinson of Norfolk; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Michael F. Finderson of Norfolk,= and a sister, Mrs. L. [Lillian] Hudson leathers of Orange, N.J.\par \tab H= e resided at 1651 Longwood Drive\par \tab A funeral service will be held at= 2 p.m. Friday in Freemason Street Baptist Church. Time and place of buria= l will be announced by Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home. The family has said th= at expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to a favorite= charity.\par \plain\b\f8\fs28 \par \par \par } --383725224.954445928790.JavaMail.root@web16.pub01--