Extracted from The Lafayette Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA)
Friday, February 20, 2004

Elizabeth Ailene Wilkinson

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, 2004, at Chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena, for Mrs. Elizabeth Ailene Wilkinson, 65, of Lafayette, who died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004, at her residence.

The Rev. Kenneth Boyd will be officiating.

Interment will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Jena.

She was a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband, George W. Wilkinson, of Lafayette; a daughter, Connie Blanchard, of Lafayette; her sons, Ronnie Wilkinson, of Baton Rouge, and Timothy Wilkinson and Wesley Wilkinson, both of Lafayette; a sister, Patsy Hibbard, of Jena; her brothers, T. W. Whittington, of Jonesville, and W. H. Whittington, of Hebert; and nine grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son, Stanley Wilkinson; and her brothers, Joe Whittington and Earl Whittington.

Pallbearers will be Ronnie Wilkinson, Timothy Wilkinson, Wesley Wilkinson, Kenneth Blanchard, Nicholas Blanchard and Brant King.

Visitation was observed from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. Thursday and will continue from 8 a.m. today until time of services at Hixson Brothers.

Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena is in charge of arrangements.