OBIT: Julia (VARNER) WILKINS, 2001, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  WILKINS
  
    Julia Varner Wilkins, 64, of Mill Valley, Calif., died Dec. 23,
  2000 at home after a three-month battle with lung cancer.  Julia was
  born in Somerset, Pa., to parents, Forrest and Elizabeth Varner.  She
  is survived by her husband, Robert, and daughter, Amanda, of Mill
  Valley, Calif.; her sister, Susan Varner of Berkeley, Calif.; and by
  her brother, Jerry, in Hershey, Pa.  She was preceded in death by her
  older sister, Ann Flemming.  The family owned Somerset Lumber Co. for
  many years.  Julia graduated from Katie Gibbs School in Boston and
  thereafter worked at University of Colorado Medical Center in
  Denver.  She then moved to Winter Park, Colo., where she was an
  assistant to the Winter Park Ski Hill director for several years.  In
  1971 she moved to Mill Valley, Calif., and married Robert E. Wilkins
  of that city in 1972.  She worked at Environmental Impact Planning in
  San Francisco and for Smith & Hawken in Mill Valley.  She owned Julia
  Wilkins Pet-Sitting and was loved by the pets she cared for and their
  owners.  She will be greatly missed by all who knew her, with her
  quiet spirit and wry sense of humor.  Memorial contributions may be
  made to Hospice of Marin, 150 Nellen Ave., Corte Madera, Calif.,
  94925-1133 or to your local hospice.
  
  Daily American, January 18, 2001
  
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