Biography
Robert Melvin Wilkinson was born on April 11, 1921, in Ansley, Nebraska, to David and Kathryn Wilkinson. The family moved to the San Fernando Valley in 1936, where Robert attended Canoga Park High School. After serving in the Navy, he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Southern California. He was later a sales-promotion manager for a showcase-manufacturing firm in Los Angeles. Wilkinson was married about 1944 to Marjorie Merta Philp of Grover, Colorado. They had a son, Robert Wilkinson, Jr.; and two daughters, Barbara Lima and Noreen Lohnes. Marjorie Wilkinson died in 1990.
He died September 27, 2010, in Northridge, California, after surgery necessitated by a broken arm and hip suffered in a fall. Services were in First Lutheran Church, Northridge. He was survived by his wife, Rosetta Kurmann-Wilkinson, son Robert J. and daughters Noreen Hodatt and Barbara Lima.
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