Ethel Wilkins

Ethel Farthing Wilkins, 79, of 240 Farthing Road, Yanceyville, NC went home to be with her Lord on Saturday, December 10, 2011 after being in declining health for several years and hospitalized for the past three weeks. Mrs. Wilkins was born in Caswell County on September 6, 1932 a daughter of the late William Edwin Farthing and the late Allie Mae Davis Farthing. She had lived all of her life in Caswell County where she was a graduate of Bartlett Yancey High School, Class of 1949. Mrs. Wilkins had worked for the Yanceyville Drug Store for a number of years and also for the Tiny Tot Day Care Center. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Yanceyville. On September 17, 1955 she was married to the late Henry Basil Wilkins who died on September 21, 1992. Mrs. Wilkins is survived by one daughter Jewell ?Julie? Hogan & husband Mike of Danville, VA; one son, Michael Wilkins or Yanceyville, NC; one brother, William E. Farthing of High Point, NC; one sister, Helen F. Ledford of Kernersville, NC; three grandchildren, Michael Wilkins, Jr., Joshua Hogan, and Natasha Hogan; a number of loving nieces and nephews; and her three loving companions Sherbert, Sylvester, and Bob. She was predeceased by three brothers, Roy Farthing, Wilbur Farthing, Eldridge Farthing and four sisters, Sadie F. Saunders, Virginia F. Howard, Jewell F. Adkins, and Louise F. Tucker. Funeral Services will be conducted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. form the First Baptist Church of Yanceyville with the Reverend Phil Kelly and the Reverend Dallas Morales officiating. Interment will follow in Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Wrenn-Yeatts Yanceyville Chapel on Tuesday night from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and at other times they will be at the residence, 240 Farthing Road, Yanceyville, NC 27379, off of the County Home Road. The family would like to thank Mrs. Wilkins care givers, Vickie Wilson and Beth Austin for all of their love and care they provided and to request memorial donations be made to the Yanceyville Volunteer Fire Department & First Responders, C/o Billy Hodges, 145 West Wood Drive, Yanceyville, NC 27379. Wrenn-Yeatts Yanceyville Chapel is respectfully serving the Wilkins family.

Ethel Wilkins

September 6, 1932 - September 6, 1932