WILKINSON, William

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ November 30, 1956, p. 1 Wm. Wilkinson, Arizonan For 62 Years, Summoned Dr. Charles S. Poling conducted funeral services in the Wickenburg Chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday for William (Bill) Wilkinson who died in Community Hospital at 8:35 p.m. Monday after an illness of three weeks. Burial was in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Mr. Wilkinson came to Arizona 62 years ago from Wisconsin where he was born June 21, 1873. He first lived in Bisbee, then went to Wenden where he lived for 40 years, and came to Wickenburg five years ago. He was a mining engineer. He and Mrs. Wilkinson were married in Bisbee in 1906 and observed their 50th wedding anniversary here last May 7. The only survivors are the widow; one daughter, Mrs. Harold Goodman; and one grandson, Harold Goodman, Jr. Mrs. Beulah Patterson was soloist at the funeral and pallbearers were George Wentworth, Niel Hanne, Carl Shride and Al Lancaster of Wickenburg, Jack Burr of Phoenix and Elias Orosco of Wenden.