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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 16, 1993                   TAG: 9303160299
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BEDFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

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OBIT WILKES, LILLIE MAY

WILKES, Lillie May, 93, of Bedford, passed away Friday, March 12, 1993 in the Bedford County Nursing Home. She was born February 10, 1900 in Grayson County, a daughter of the late William Padgett and Margaret Hurd Padgett. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gurvis Wilkes, and two sons, Garnett Wilkes and Allen A. Wilkes. She was a member of the Thaxton Baptist Church and also of the Lizzie McGee Circle. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Frances W. and Charles E. Dunham, Bedford; daughter-in-law, Rebecca Wilkes, Lynchburg; a brother and sister-in-law, Whitt and Alice Padgett, Galax; four grandchildren, Janice Fitzgerald, Martinsville, Charles Dunham Jr., Goldsboro, N.C., Allen Wilkes Jr., New York City, N.Y., Kirk Wilkes, Danville, New Jersey; four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 17, 1993 at 3 p.m. from the Updike Funeral Chapel, Bedford, by the Rev. Michael DuVal and Dr. Carl Douglass Jr. Interment will follow in the Wilkes Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the residence of the daughter, Frances W. Dunham, 904 Burks Hill Road, Bedford. Arrangements are being handled by Updike Funeral Home, Bedford.

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