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Show ' Death Claims P. N. Wilkinson Early This Week Funeral services are being held this afternoon in the Cedar City First Ward chapel for Percy Newton Wilkinson, 53, who died Monday at the family residence from complications com-plications following an attack of the flu. Mr. Wilkinson had been In poor health for the past two years and about three weeks ago was confined con-fined to his bed with a flu attack. Following the attack, he steadily became weaker with death resulting Monday morning. He was born In Leeds, Utah CjB August 18, 1887, a son of Joseph 1. and Jane Sarah Wells Wilkinson, early settlers of southern Utah. The family moved to Cedar City a few years later and Mr. Wilkinson had made his home here since that time. On June 5, 1913 he married Julia Williams of Kanarra in the St. George temple. As a young man Mr. Wilkinson followed the printer's trade, working work-ing for several years with his brother broth-er in the Iron County Record, after which he took up carpentry, following follow-ing that trade until recently when his health began to fall. He was a member of the building committee for the erection of the Cedar City L. D. S. First Ward chapel and did much of the carpenter work in that building. He is survived by his mother jf TfKPnVl TTtflh Vile rvfn fhrna cni i Lex, Jay and Kay, and one grant-child, grant-child, all of Cedar City. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Wells of Joseph, Utah; five brothers: Dr. H. H. and Marion Wilkinson of Salt Lake City, Ray Wilkinson of St. Joseph, Arizona, Stephen R. Wilkinson of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Gerald Wilkinson of Sacramento, California; and one half-brother, Charles S. Wilkinson of Salt Ltike City. |