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Stephen D. "Fatback" Wilkinson

1971 - 2025

Stephen D. "Fatback" Wilkinson obituary, 1971-2025, Bardin, FL

BORN

1971

DIED

2025

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Masters Funeral Home - Palatka

3015 Crill Avenue

Palatka, Florida

Stephen Wilkinson Obituary


Stephen D. ""Fatback"" Wilkinson, 53, of Bardin passed away Friday, February 14, 2025, at HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville.
Born in the former Palatka Memorial Hospital in Palatka, Stephen had been a lifelong resident of Bardin and was of the Baptist faith.
For most of his working life, he was a skidder operator in the timber industry. In his leisure time, he enjoyed hunting and fishing. He loved his family and was dearly devoted to his friends and brought joy to everyone he spent time with.
He was predeceased by his mother, Genice Wilkinson; maternal grandparents, Ardel and Delia Morse; paternal grandmother and step-grandfather, Lula and Ebert Sweat; and paternal grandfather, Leo Wilkinson.
Survivors include his father, Phillip Wilkinson of Bardin; two daughters, Crystal Wilkinson, and Rebecca Wilkinson, both of Palatka; son and daughter-in-law, Stephen D. Jr. and Kattie Wilkinson of Palatka; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Phillip Jr. and Madonna Wilkinson, and Darin and Carrie Wilkinson, both of Bardin; two sisters, Melissa Wilkinson, and Geneva Wilkinson, both of Bardin; two grandchildren, Serena Crawford and Kai Wilkinson; numerous nieces and nephews; and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.
Calling hours will be 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 6 at Masters Funeral Home in Palatka. Services at the funeral home will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 7, with Pastor Glenn Tillis officiating. Interment will follow in Etoniah Cemetery in Bardin.
Memorial gifts in Stephen's memory may be made to Masters Funeral Home, 3015 Crill Ave., Palatka FL 32177.
Messages of sympathy may be shared on Stephen's online tribute page at: themastersfuneralhome.com.
Masters Funeral Home of Palatka is in charge of arrangements.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Palatka Daily News from Mar. 4 to Mar. 25, 2025.

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Calling hours

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Masters Funeral Home - Palatka

3015 Crill Avenue, Palatka, FL 32177-5398

Mar

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Masters Funeral Home - Palatka

3015 Crill Avenue, Palatka, FL 32177-5398

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