Bernette Ann (Kelch) WILKINSON

WILKINSON, KELCH, VOGEL, REED, SCHAUB

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/12/2007 at 23:02:01

26 November 1910 --- 28 September 2003

ALGONA - Bernette A. Wilkinson, 92, of Algona and formerly of Eagle Grove, died Sunday (Sept. 28, 2003) at the Algona Manor Care Center. Funeral services for Bernette will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Eagle Grove with the Rev. James Miller presiding. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Eagle Grove. Visitation will be one hour prior to the funeral service at the church. Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaff Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette
September 29, 2003

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Bernette A. Wilkinson
Bernette Ann Wilkinson, 92, of Algona, formerly of Eagle Grove, died Sunday, September 28, 2003, at the Algona Manor Care Center. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Eagle Grove with Father James Miller officiating. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Eagle Grove.

Bernette Ann Wilkinson was born on November 26, 1910 at Oak Hill, Illnois, the daughter of Peter and Frances (Vogel) Kelch. She graduated from Corwith High School in 1928 and worked for 10 years in Algona for Dr. C.H. Cretzmeyer. Bernette married Orville Wilkinson on April 18, 1938. The couple lived in California and Tennessee-while Orville served in the military. They also lived in Minneapolis. Bernette worked as a waitress for many years. In 1972, the couple moved to Eagle Grove and Orville died in 1986. Bernette continued to live there until her health failed and she became a resident of the Algona Manor Care Center.

She is survived by her sister, Mary Reed, and husband, Wallace, of Marshalltown; sister-in-law Alice Kelch, of Corwith; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Orville, three sisters, Hilda Schaub, Katherine Kelch, and Thelma Kelch; and three brothers, Arthur Kelch, Hugo Kelch, and Sylvester Kelch. Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaaf Funeral Home in Algona is in charge of the arrangements.

Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
October 1, 2003