Funeral program for Mr. Alton Wilkerson

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MR. ALTON WILKERSON
Sunday, April 21, 1985
Jerusalem Baptist Church
Groveland, Georgia
Rev. C. Anderson, Officiating
Burial Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Moody & Mincey Funeral Home, Claxton, Ga. in Charge of Arrangements
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Mr. Alton Wilkerson was born March 26, 1937 in Evans
County, Georgia. He departed this life April 14, 1985 at his
residence in Hackensack, New Jersey.
He was the son of Mrs. Ethel Wilkerson and the late McKinley
Wilkerson. He joined the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church,
Hackensack, N.J.
He leaves to mourn his loving mother, Mrs. Ethel Wilkerson,
Claxton, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Mary B. Whitehead, Mrs. Lelia M.
Linton, Miss Dorothy Wilkerson, all of Irvington, N.J.; two
brothers, Mr. Earl Wilkerson of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. and Mr. Julian
Wilkerson of Claxton, Ga.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Eileen
Wilkerson of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., and Mrs. Bernistine Wilkerson of
Claxton, Ga.; one brother-in-law, Charles Whitehead of Irvington,
N.J.; a very dear friend, Marion O'Neal of Hackensack, N.J.; aunts
and uncles, Mrs. Mary Wilkerson of Ridgeland, S.C., Mrs. Gilda
Woodson, Mr. Robert Woodson and Alma Alexander all of
Cleveland, Oh., Mr. Levy Williams of Yorkton Heights, N.Y., Mr.
Henry Williams of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., Mr. Beecher Wilkerson and
Mrs. Ella Mae Wilkerson both of Gary, Ind., Mrs. Ida Mae
Washington, and Mr. Clifford Washington both of Miami, Fla.,
Mrs. Cleo Jackson of Hinesville, Ga., Mr. Elza Wilkerson and Mrs.
Reba Phillips and Mrs. Helen Fench all of Brentwood, N.Y., Mrs.
Gussie Collin of Newark, N.J., Mrs. Edna B. Williams of Claxton,
Ga., Mr. Landas Levant, Sr. of Glennville, Ga., Inez Wilkerson of
Huntington Long Island, N.Y.; one great aunt, Mrs. Clara Swinson;
a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The family acknowledges with deep appreciation
the many comforting messages, flowers, and many
other expressions of kindness evidenced at this time in
thought and deed.
rtler of
PRELUDE ................................ Music
PROCESSIONAL
HYMN ....................................Choir
SCRIPTURE
PRAYER
SELECTION ...............................Choir
REMARKS: AS I KNEW HIM ......... Mr. Frank Hagan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND OBITUARY
SOLO ............................. Bernice Martin
EULOGY ......................... Rev. C. Anderson
A PARTING GLANCE
RECESSIONAL
Frank Hagan
Freddie Geiger
Harold Jones
Pallbearers
Ananias Thomas, Jr.
Dale Thomas
Charles Thomas
Remember me happy
Wi7/i a smiling face,
Remember me peaceful
with a warm embrace.
Greet with a kiss,
Greet with a hug,
For to know life is to
know God and his love.
It doesn't take a picture
Nor two eyes to see.
But, only the love 1 carried in my heart,
Just to Remember me."