JUNIOR WILKINSON

MILES CITY, Mont. -- Funeral service for Junior Marion "Tiny" Wilkinson of Miles City was held Wednesday at Bullis-Graves Memorial Chapel, with Bob Bozarth officiating. Burial was in the veterans' section of the Custer County Cemetery.

Wilkinson, 70, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at the Miles City V.A. Medical Center.

He was born Oct. 26, 1925, in Cape Girardeau, son of Elba and Daisy Dorsy Wilkinson. He and Betty Kimbel were married Feb. 27, 1948, in Paragould, Ark.

Wilkinson was a certified lineman with Missouri Utilities Co. He moved from Cape Girardeau in 1959. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Gina Dehart of Lewistown, Mont., Donna Farrow of Jackson and Vicki Sallee of Sequim, Wash.; four sons, Russ Wilkinson of Quilcene, Wash., Ron Wilkinson of Miles City, and Glen and Steve Wilkinson, both of Sequim; his mother of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Glenn and Bob Wilkinson, both of Cape Girardeau; five sisters, Maxine O'Howell of San Bernardino, Calif., Mildred Tapley of East Cape Girardeau, Carol Green of Baton Rouge, La., and Winnis Givens and Brenda Bowman, both of Cape Girardeau; 14 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.