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Charles Blake Winkler

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Charles Blake Winkler

Birth
Lenoir County, North Carolina, USA
Death
17 Mar 2020 (aged 83)
Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Boiling Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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H/O Wilma Bentley Winkler
Charles Blake Winkler, 83, of Moore, SC went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at his home surrounded by his family. He was the husband of Wilma Bentley Winkler for 55 years.
Mr. Winkler was a native of Lenoir, NC and a son of the late Frank and Vernie Winkler. He spent 28 years as a postal employee, four years as a clerk and the last 24 as Postmaster at Hamlet, NC and Landrum SC, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Gideon Society, Lions and Rotary Clubs, a Sunday school teacher, and Air Force Veteran of 10 years as an electronic countermeasures operator on RB50G aircraft and radio operator on KC-97 tanker. He was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church. Brother: George Winkler of Graham, NC; sisters: Barbara Carswell and Kathleen McNeill of Lenoir, NC. He was predeceased by sisters: Sybil Laws, Margaret Coffey and Wilda Smith.
Visitation will be held from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at Eggers Funeral Home of Boiling Springs. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 a.m. in the Funeral Chapel officiated by Dr. Dale Roach and Rev. Larry Winkler. Interment will be in Good Shepherd Memorial Park with military rites.
H/O Wilma Bentley Winkler
Charles Blake Winkler, 83, of Moore, SC went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at his home surrounded by his family. He was the husband of Wilma Bentley Winkler for 55 years.
Mr. Winkler was a native of Lenoir, NC and a son of the late Frank and Vernie Winkler. He spent 28 years as a postal employee, four years as a clerk and the last 24 as Postmaster at Hamlet, NC and Landrum SC, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Gideon Society, Lions and Rotary Clubs, a Sunday school teacher, and Air Force Veteran of 10 years as an electronic countermeasures operator on RB50G aircraft and radio operator on KC-97 tanker. He was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church. Brother: George Winkler of Graham, NC; sisters: Barbara Carswell and Kathleen McNeill of Lenoir, NC. He was predeceased by sisters: Sybil Laws, Margaret Coffey and Wilda Smith.
Visitation will be held from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at Eggers Funeral Home of Boiling Springs. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 a.m. in the Funeral Chapel officiated by Dr. Dale Roach and Rev. Larry Winkler. Interment will be in Good Shepherd Memorial Park with military rites.


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