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DATE: FRIDAY, June 24, 1994                    TAG: 9406240436 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: SUFFOLK 
DATELINE: 940624                                 LENGTH: Short 

BENNIE WILKINS

{LEAD} Bennie Wilkins, 79, of the 900 block of Truman Road, died June 22, 1994, in Obici Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Wilkins was born in Bertie County, N.C., son of the late Tobie and Abbie Boone Wilkins.

{REST} Survivors include two sisters, Catherine Broadnax and Emma Wilkins, both of Norfolk; two sisters-in-law, Mary Wilkins and Ethel Mae Wilkins, both of Suffolk; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

A funeral will be conducted at 1p.m. Saturday in Crocker Funeral Home by Dr. Madison E. Copeland. Burial will be in Little Mount Zion Cemetery. The family will be at the home of Mary Wilkins, 917 Truman Road, Suffolk.

{KEYWORDS} DEATH OBITUARY

by CNB