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Show Roosevelt Flyer Dies In China Sea Plane Crash Word was received Monday night by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilkins Wil-kins that their son, Lt. Kirk C. Wilkins, 28, had been killed in an aircraft accident off ,the USS Boxer Carrier in the South China area. The telegram also stated that his- body was not recovered. Further details have not yet been received. Lt. Wilkins Wil-kins had completed his 150th mission the last of June. His wife, Junella, who has resided in San Diego for the past three years, received a telegram tele-gram at 7:30 p.m. Monday evening eve-ning and called her husband's parents at Roosevelt, whose telegram tele-gram arrived about 8:30 p.m. from Washington. Lt. Wilkins has served approximately ap-proximately eight years in the Naval Air Force. He attended the Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., and graduated from the Brigham Young University Uni-versity at Provo, where he majored ma-jored in speech and radio. Before going into the service" the last time, after completing his schooling, he was employed as a sports announcer for radio station KCSU at Provo. Memorial services will be held in the Roosevelt stake chapel on Wednesday, July 21, at 1 p.m. under the direction of Merlin Sullivan, bisho'p of ' the Fourth ward. Survivors include his wife, Junella Sanford Wilkins, San Diego; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilkins, Roosevelt; a brother, Cal Wilkins, Salt Lake City, and a maternal grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Etta Odekirk, Salt Lake City, Utah. The family requests no flowers. |