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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."