Roger A. Wilkinson

Dear Gloria, Lois, and Tom,
I am so sorry to hear of Roger's
death. I am also sorry I missed the visitation, because I would have given you all great big hugs.

Here is my most precious memory of Roger: It seems to me he once said that "God knew I needed a wife, and so Lois was born exactly nine months after me."...that's a loose paraphrase, but to this day, I remember it, because my best friend's birthday is exactly nine months after mine. God always knows...

Dear Lois & Family
We were so sorry to hear of your sad news, we both work with Roger for some time, had plenty laugh's with him. I sure he will be miss.

Don & Jerry Ann

To Roger's family,

I'm very sorry to learn of your husband's/father's passing. Roger and I attended Milwood School at the same time. I was a year older. I remember him well growing up, the son of the fire chief there on Cork Street across from the school. We also played in the same basketball league on Saturday nights at Milwood and were in boy scouts together.

He had a good sense of humor and was good at sports, as I recall, and was a fine, clean-cut lad. I'm...

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;...