AREA OBITUARIES – FLORENCE WILKERSON

July 06, 2021

Florence S. Wilkerson, a resident of Hickman, died July 2 at her residence. She was 91.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. July 3 at the West Baptist Church, in Hickman, with Bro. Jason Sipes officiating. Burial followed in the Hickman City Cemetery.

Tevin Wilkerson, Jacob Wilkerson, Josh Garrigan, Braden Johnson, Rob Garrigan and Bret Johnson served as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers were the West Hickman Baptist Church Deacons and Chuck Everett and Johnny Branam.

Strong Funeral Home, of Hickman, was in charge of arrangements.

She is survived by her sons, Mike (Miki) Wilkerson, of Woodland Mills, Tenn., Jeff (Laura) Wilkerson, of Fredericksburg, Va., Byron (Renee) Wilkerson, of Jackson, Mo.; a daughter, Celia (Buddy) Amberg, of Hickman; a sister, Corrinne Castleman, of Clarksville, Tenn.; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Edith Sharp; her husband, Howard Wilkerson; a brother, Charles Sharp; and three sisters, Faye Brackett Irene Plant, Anna Maude Anderson and Louise Lashlee.

Born April 14, 1930 in New Johnsonville, Tenn., she was a member of the West Baptist Church in Hickman and had been a homemaker most of life.