GRANGEVILLE—Lester M. Wilkins, 84, died Sunday at Sacred Heart Medical Center at Spokane of complications following surgery. He had been ill for about a year.
He was born near Mt. Idaho, Idaho, October 26, 1893, to John and Susan Wilkins. They moved to the Nine Pipes area north of Grangeville when he was a child, and he attended a country school there.
He served two years in the U.S. Army in World War I. He then returned to Grangeville where he married Eva Long November 28, 1926. They farmed in the Nine Pipes area before moving to Grangeville in 1945. He ranched until his retirement in 1958.
He was a life member of the Eagles Lodge of Grangeville, a past director of the Charity Grange, a member of the Grangeville Gun Club and a Border Days Parade Marshal.
Survivors include his wife at the family home; two sons, Ted and Merlin both of Grangeville; a daughter Jean Greenrod of Grangeville; two brothers, Oscar of Baker, Oregon and Lloyd of Cambridge, Idaho; a sister, Carrie Heath of Scottsdale, Arizona, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Nolan Funeral Home at Grangeville with the Rev. Richard Butler of the Grangeville Christian Church presiding. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery north of Grangeville.
The family suggests memorials to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Rupert, Idaho, or Syringa General Hospital.
Contributor: Carla
He was born near Mt. Idaho, Idaho, October 26, 1893, to John and Susan Wilkins. They moved to the Nine Pipes area north of Grangeville when he was a child, and he attended a country school there.
He served two years in the U.S. Army in World War I. He then returned to Grangeville where he married Eva Long November 28, 1926. They farmed in the Nine Pipes area before moving to Grangeville in 1945. He ranched until his retirement in 1958.
He was a life member of the Eagles Lodge of Grangeville, a past director of the Charity Grange, a member of the Grangeville Gun Club and a Border Days Parade Marshal.
Survivors include his wife at the family home; two sons, Ted and Merlin both of Grangeville; a daughter Jean Greenrod of Grangeville; two brothers, Oscar of Baker, Oregon and Lloyd of Cambridge, Idaho; a sister, Carrie Heath of Scottsdale, Arizona, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Nolan Funeral Home at Grangeville with the Rev. Richard Butler of the Grangeville Christian Church presiding. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery north of Grangeville.
The family suggests memorials to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Rupert, Idaho, or Syringa General Hospital.
Contributor: Carla
GRANGEVILLE—Lester M. Wilkins, 84, died Sunday at Sacred Heart Medical Center at Spokane of complications following surgery. He had been ill for about a year.
He was born near Mt. Idaho, Idaho, October 26, 1893, to John and Susan Wilkins. They moved to the Nine Pipes area north of Grangeville when he was a child, and he attended a country school there.
He served two years in the U.S. Army in World War I. He then returned to Grangeville where he married Eva Long November 28, 1926. They farmed in the Nine Pipes area before moving to Grangeville in 1945. He ranched until his retirement in 1958.
He was a life member of the Eagles Lodge of Grangeville, a past director of the Charity Grange, a member of the Grangeville Gun Club and a Border Days Parade Marshal.
Survivors include his wife at the family home; two sons, Ted and Merlin both of Grangeville; a daughter Jean Greenrod of Grangeville; two brothers, Oscar of Baker, Oregon and Lloyd of Cambridge, Idaho; a sister, Carrie Heath of Scottsdale, Arizona, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Nolan Funeral Home at Grangeville with the Rev. Richard Butler of the Grangeville Christian Church presiding. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery north of Grangeville.
The family suggests memorials to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Rupert, Idaho, or Syringa General Hospital.
Contributor: Carla
He was born near Mt. Idaho, Idaho, October 26, 1893, to John and Susan Wilkins. They moved to the Nine Pipes area north of Grangeville when he was a child, and he attended a country school there.
He served two years in the U.S. Army in World War I. He then returned to Grangeville where he married Eva Long November 28, 1926. They farmed in the Nine Pipes area before moving to Grangeville in 1945. He ranched until his retirement in 1958.
He was a life member of the Eagles Lodge of Grangeville, a past director of the Charity Grange, a member of the Grangeville Gun Club and a Border Days Parade Marshal.
Survivors include his wife at the family home; two sons, Ted and Merlin both of Grangeville; a daughter Jean Greenrod of Grangeville; two brothers, Oscar of Baker, Oregon and Lloyd of Cambridge, Idaho; a sister, Carrie Heath of Scottsdale, Arizona, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Nolan Funeral Home at Grangeville with the Rev. Richard Butler of the Grangeville Christian Church presiding. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery north of Grangeville.
The family suggests memorials to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Rupert, Idaho, or Syringa General Hospital.
Contributor: Carla
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