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- [S361] Newspaper -- The Gazette (Maryland), Grace Jelks Wilkie; obituary; 13 May 1998; online ; accessed; 29 April 2015 (Reliability: 2).
Grace Jelks Wilkie
Grace Jelks Wilkie, 93, a retired statistician and resident of Rockville, died of congestive heart failure at Shady Grove Adventist Nursing Center on May 5.
She was born in the Oklahoma Territory, the daughter of pioneer parents. Her first marriage was to E.A. McKee. She had twin daughters who died in infancy.
After her divorce she worked in Kansas City, Mo., from 1929 to 1940 when she received a Civil Service appointment to Washington, D.C. During World War II she was a statistician in the War Shipping Administration.
In 1946 she married her second husband, Henry E. Wilkie, a chemist and industrial gelatin manufacturer, and lived Buffalo, N.Y., until retirement to Chapel Hill, N.C.
She moved to Rockville following the death of her husband in 1980. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her sister, Nettie B. Stevens, 98, of Brownsville, Texas; her son and daughter-in-law, Elwood and Joan McKee of Rockville; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
- [S362] Newspaper -- Durham Morning Herald, HENRY WILKIE; obituary; 18 March 1980; page 4C, column 2 (Reliability: 2).
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Obituary of Henry E. Wilkie Sr. (Durham Morning Herald, 18 Mar 1980, page 4C)
HENRY WILKIE
Henry Elmer Wilkie, 88, of 69 Maxwell Road, Chapel Hill, died early Monday morning in Hillcrest Nursing Home after a brief illness.
He was a native of New York and was a retired employee of Chalmers Gelatin Co. He had lived in Chapel Hill since 1977. He was a Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner and a Rotarian. He was also the past president of the National Association of Gelatin Manufacturers. He was a member of Christ Methodist Church in Buffalo, N.Y.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill by the Rev. Jack Ruth. Burial will be in Elm Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, N.Y.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace Jelks Wilkie; a daughter, Mrs. Betty W. Streets of Brockport, N.Y.; two sons, Henry E. Wilkie Jr. of West Grove, Pa., and Richard C. Wilkie of Fort Worth, Texas; a stepson, Elwood A. McKee of Rockville, Md.; 16 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. |
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