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Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Saturday, March 13, 1999

WILKINSON, SIDNEY C.

Retired from the U.S. Air Force and WBRZ-TV, he died at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 1999, at Summit Hospital. He was 84, a resident of Baton Rouge and a native of Kentwood. He was a World War II prisoner of war of the Japanese for 42 months, having survived the Bataan Death March.

Visiting was at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. Visiting at the funeral home chapel, 10 a.m. until religious services at 2 p.m. Saturday,conducted by the Rev. Ken Carroll. Interment with full military honors at Resthaven Gardens of Memory.

Survived by his wife, Cora Reese Wilkinson, Baton Rouge; three sons and daughters-in-law, Sidney Jr. and Pamela Wilkinson, Gulfport, Miss., Dennis and Janet Wilkinson, Atlanta, and Greg and Carol Wilkinson, Denver; two sisters, Hazel Jones, New Orleans, and Judy Williams, McComb, Miss.; a brother, Oree Wilkinson, Baton Rouge; six grandchildren, Tammy Norbek, Jacksonville, Fla., Shelly Marlin, Panama City, Fla., Missey and Laura Wilkinson, Denver, Wesley and Michael Wilkinson, Gulfport; and two great-grandchildren, Ashley and Kelsey.

Pallbearers will be members of the U.S. Air Force.

He was a member of Broadmoor United Methodist Church, Red Stick Chapter of Ex-POWs, Zachary Taylor VFW Post No. 3784 and was a Mason.