Katherine Wilkes

Mrs. Katherine Wiley Wilkes, 79, retired employee of Mt. Pleasant Manufacturing and Industrial Products and resident of Gibson Hollow Road, died Monday, June 6, 2005, at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 P.M. Wednesday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Hueston Marshall officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 4:00 - 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Mt. Pleasant Public Library, P. O. Box 71, Mt. Pleasant, TN 38474. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late John Wiley and Opie Farris Wiley. She was a graduate of Hampshire High School and attended Columbia Business College. She was a member of Beech Hill Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband of fifty-eight years, Richard A. Wilkes of Mt. Pleasant; one son, Richard W. (Tina) Wilkes of Mt. Pleasant; one daughter, Jean (Douglas) White of Memphis; one sister, Mrs. Ina (Billy) Kennedy of Hampshire; three grandchildren, Benjamin Wilkes, Jonathon Wilkes, Nicholas Wilkes; two nieces, Kaye (Larry) Bruce and Brenda (John) Mannon; and one nephew, John Hight (Kristin) Wilkes, Jr. Pallbearers will be Wayne Scott, Luke Jones, Kenneth Davis, Dr. Robert Bain, Ed Brooks, Steven Boshers, Randy Boshers, Ronnie Boshers, Ricky Boshers, Terry Boshers, Barry Boshers, and Jeff Boshers. Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Farris, Ronald Dodd, and elders and deacons of Beech Hill Church of Christ.