Obituary of Freddie Larry Wilkes, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Wednesday, May 6, 1998


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Freddie Larry Wilkes

Freddie Larry Wilkes, 47, of Houston, Texas, died Tuesday, April 26, 1998, at
the Clear Lake Regional Hospital near Houston.

He was an operations manager for Petroleum Service Corporation where he had
worked for 25 years. He was also a member of the Parkview Baptist Church in
Baton Rouge.

He was born in Start on Nov. 6, 1950, to the union of Freddie O. and Ira Keene
Wilkes.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at the Grayson Baptist
Church with Rev. Eugene Gullett and Cordell Haymon officiating.

Disposition will be private among family only. The arrangements were handled
by Riser Funeral Home of Columbia.

Survivors include his wife, Linda Russell Wilkes of Houston; two sons, F.
Jeffery Wilkes of Orlando, Fla., and Cullen Hardy Wilkes of Houston; one
daughter, Cara W. Kernan of Baton Rouge; one brother, Eddie C. Wilkes of
Gonzales; his grandmother, Lucy Briley Wilkes of Start and two grandchildren
and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Gary Watts, C.H. Boyd, Jason Watts, Dennis Jacobson, Darren
Jacobson and Chris Jacobson.