Barbara Jane White Wilkinson, 86 years young, of Florence, Kentucky, went to her heavenly home on Saturday, November 11, 2023. She passed away at home, despite her valiant battle with cancer, under the care of several nieces and nephews, along with hospice care in her final two months. Barbara was born in Buchtel, Ohio, on February 20, 1937, to the late William Byron and Elizabeth Mary Sheskey White. She graduated from Ohio University and worked as a registered and licensed dietician, finally retiring from Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, in Covington, where she had been the director of nutritional services.
Food was a lifelong passion, and she was a wonderful gourmet cook, renowned for her dinner parties and events and fabulous Christmas cookies and candies. Barbara was an adventurer at heart and travelled the world with her husband, siblings and their spouses, nieces and friends. It was on one of these excursions that she was awarded the English Title Designation as Lady Barbara Wilkinson on June 12, 2020, under the House of Pierpont-Archer. She took this title quite seriously and literally was referred to thereafter as Lady. She wore this proudly.
Barbara was a member of Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, the Florence Elks Lodge and Saint Paul's and Saint Tim's senior groups and was a Kentucky Colonel. She enjoyed playing cards with her family and many blessed friends.
She enjoyed 42 years of blissful marriage to her beloved husband, Billy Ray Wilkinson, who passed away in 2009. She was also preceded in death by: a brother, William White, and his wife, Josephine; and two sisters, Lady Elizabeth Ann McDonald, and her husband, Charles, and Lady Patricia Turner. She is survived by a brother-in-law, Kenneth Turner. Not having been blessed with children of her own, she dearly loved her 10 nieces and nephews and their spouses and children. Lady Aunt Barbara was a surrogate mother to all.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 17, at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, 7301 Dixie Highway, Florence. As a last request, Barbara wishes for family members and friends to gather for a celebration of life (immediately following Mass) at Florence Nature Park Event Center, 7200 Nature Park Drive (off Banklick Street). In lieu of flowers, sympathy may be expressed by a memorial donation to: Hospice of Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, 483 South Loop Road, Edgewood, Kentucky 41017; Saint Vincent DePaul, 7110 Turfway Road, Florence, Kentucky 41042; or Florence Elks National Foundation, 7704 Dixie Highway, Florence, Kentucky 41042.
Source: Linnemann Funeral Homes website at linnemannfuneralhomes.com
Food was a lifelong passion, and she was a wonderful gourmet cook, renowned for her dinner parties and events and fabulous Christmas cookies and candies. Barbara was an adventurer at heart and travelled the world with her husband, siblings and their spouses, nieces and friends. It was on one of these excursions that she was awarded the English Title Designation as Lady Barbara Wilkinson on June 12, 2020, under the House of Pierpont-Archer. She took this title quite seriously and literally was referred to thereafter as Lady. She wore this proudly.
Barbara was a member of Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, the Florence Elks Lodge and Saint Paul's and Saint Tim's senior groups and was a Kentucky Colonel. She enjoyed playing cards with her family and many blessed friends.
She enjoyed 42 years of blissful marriage to her beloved husband, Billy Ray Wilkinson, who passed away in 2009. She was also preceded in death by: a brother, William White, and his wife, Josephine; and two sisters, Lady Elizabeth Ann McDonald, and her husband, Charles, and Lady Patricia Turner. She is survived by a brother-in-law, Kenneth Turner. Not having been blessed with children of her own, she dearly loved her 10 nieces and nephews and their spouses and children. Lady Aunt Barbara was a surrogate mother to all.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 17, at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, 7301 Dixie Highway, Florence. As a last request, Barbara wishes for family members and friends to gather for a celebration of life (immediately following Mass) at Florence Nature Park Event Center, 7200 Nature Park Drive (off Banklick Street). In lieu of flowers, sympathy may be expressed by a memorial donation to: Hospice of Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, 483 South Loop Road, Edgewood, Kentucky 41017; Saint Vincent DePaul, 7110 Turfway Road, Florence, Kentucky 41042; or Florence Elks National Foundation, 7704 Dixie Highway, Florence, Kentucky 41042.
Source: Linnemann Funeral Homes website at linnemannfuneralhomes.com
Barbara Jane White Wilkinson, 86 years young, of Florence, Kentucky, went to her heavenly home on Saturday, November 11, 2023. She passed away at home, despite her valiant battle with cancer, under the care of several nieces and nephews, along with hospice care in her final two months. Barbara was born in Buchtel, Ohio, on February 20, 1937, to the late William Byron and Elizabeth Mary Sheskey White. She graduated from Ohio University and worked as a registered and licensed dietician, finally retiring from Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, in Covington, where she had been the director of nutritional services.
Food was a lifelong passion, and she was a wonderful gourmet cook, renowned for her dinner parties and events and fabulous Christmas cookies and candies. Barbara was an adventurer at heart and travelled the world with her husband, siblings and their spouses, nieces and friends. It was on one of these excursions that she was awarded the English Title Designation as Lady Barbara Wilkinson on June 12, 2020, under the House of Pierpont-Archer. She took this title quite seriously and literally was referred to thereafter as Lady. She wore this proudly.
Barbara was a member of Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, the Florence Elks Lodge and Saint Paul's and Saint Tim's senior groups and was a Kentucky Colonel. She enjoyed playing cards with her family and many blessed friends.
She enjoyed 42 years of blissful marriage to her beloved husband, Billy Ray Wilkinson, who passed away in 2009. She was also preceded in death by: a brother, William White, and his wife, Josephine; and two sisters, Lady Elizabeth Ann McDonald, and her husband, Charles, and Lady Patricia Turner. She is survived by a brother-in-law, Kenneth Turner. Not having been blessed with children of her own, she dearly loved her 10 nieces and nephews and their spouses and children. Lady Aunt Barbara was a surrogate mother to all.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 17, at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, 7301 Dixie Highway, Florence. As a last request, Barbara wishes for family members and friends to gather for a celebration of life (immediately following Mass) at Florence Nature Park Event Center, 7200 Nature Park Drive (off Banklick Street). In lieu of flowers, sympathy may be expressed by a memorial donation to: Hospice of Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, 483 South Loop Road, Edgewood, Kentucky 41017; Saint Vincent DePaul, 7110 Turfway Road, Florence, Kentucky 41042; or Florence Elks National Foundation, 7704 Dixie Highway, Florence, Kentucky 41042.
Source: Linnemann Funeral Homes website at linnemannfuneralhomes.com
Food was a lifelong passion, and she was a wonderful gourmet cook, renowned for her dinner parties and events and fabulous Christmas cookies and candies. Barbara was an adventurer at heart and travelled the world with her husband, siblings and their spouses, nieces and friends. It was on one of these excursions that she was awarded the English Title Designation as Lady Barbara Wilkinson on June 12, 2020, under the House of Pierpont-Archer. She took this title quite seriously and literally was referred to thereafter as Lady. She wore this proudly.
Barbara was a member of Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, the Florence Elks Lodge and Saint Paul's and Saint Tim's senior groups and was a Kentucky Colonel. She enjoyed playing cards with her family and many blessed friends.
She enjoyed 42 years of blissful marriage to her beloved husband, Billy Ray Wilkinson, who passed away in 2009. She was also preceded in death by: a brother, William White, and his wife, Josephine; and two sisters, Lady Elizabeth Ann McDonald, and her husband, Charles, and Lady Patricia Turner. She is survived by a brother-in-law, Kenneth Turner. Not having been blessed with children of her own, she dearly loved her 10 nieces and nephews and their spouses and children. Lady Aunt Barbara was a surrogate mother to all.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 17, at Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church, 7301 Dixie Highway, Florence. As a last request, Barbara wishes for family members and friends to gather for a celebration of life (immediately following Mass) at Florence Nature Park Event Center, 7200 Nature Park Drive (off Banklick Street). In lieu of flowers, sympathy may be expressed by a memorial donation to: Hospice of Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, 483 South Loop Road, Edgewood, Kentucky 41017; Saint Vincent DePaul, 7110 Turfway Road, Florence, Kentucky 41042; or Florence Elks National Foundation, 7704 Dixie Highway, Florence, Kentucky 41042.
Source: Linnemann Funeral Homes website at linnemannfuneralhomes.com
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