TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for WILKERSON, VELMA Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Jan. 23 to Jan. 24, 2014 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= WILKERSON, VELMA ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2014/f1401.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Velma Mae Wilkerson, 72, a native and resident of Morgan City, died at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until funeral time Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Morgan City. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the church, with burial in Morgan City Cemetery. She is survived by her stepson, Albert Wilkerson Jr., of Dallas, Texas; daughters, Anita W. Richardson, of Patterson, and Stephanie Riley, of Houston, Texas; sister, Debra Nixon; five grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and nine step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Van Nixon Sr. and Estelle Carter; husband, Albert Wilkerson Sr.; and brother, Van Nixon Jr. Jones Funeral Home in Morgan City is in charge of arrangements. ======================