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08/07/2018 - Carl Eugene Wilkins
A celebration of life for lifelong local rancher Carl Eugene Wilkins, age 81, originally from Marsland, NE and most recently from Chadron, NE, will be at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at Chamberlain Chapel in Chadron, NE.
A reception for family and friends will follow at the Eagles Club in Crawford, NE at 4:00 PM. Please join the family in remembrance.
A memorial has been established for the donor’s local fire department and/or the Crawford Eagles Club. The family would like to thank those friends and neighbors for their condolences and times shared with Carl and his family. It has been genuinely appreciated.
Carl passed away peacefully on Friday, August 3, 2018 at his home south of Chadron, NE, accompanied by his family.
Carl was born on June 14, (Flag Day) 1937 to Orville Theodore (OT) and Audrey Vergene (Hashman) Wilkins in Alliance, NE. Carl grew up in the Marsland area, going to a one-room grade school in the country. After grade school, Carl attended the AgriculturalHigh School in Curtis, NE where many of his lifelong friends also attended school from across the state. Eventually Carl graduated from AllianceHigh School at the young age of 16 years old in 1954. He later attended the Ag program at ColoradoStateUniversity in Ft. Collins, CO.
He married his sweetheart, Iris Lucille Johnson (Topsy), also from the Marsland area in 1956 in Delta, CO where Iris’s mother, Beryl, lived at the time.
Carl continued to ranch in the Marsland area on the Ridge between Chadron, Crawford, and Marsland where he and Iris first lived after their marriage. Eventually Carl and Iris moved to Marsland and then to the home and ranch they spent the most time at along the NiobraraRiver east of Marsland. Recently they lived south of Chadron until his untimely passing.
Carl leaves as his legacy, sons Wade Wilkins (Sherry) and Todd Wilkins (Dawn); daughters Vicki Turnbull (Charles), Cindi Wickersham, and Stacy Bergmeier (William); 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and sibling Lonnie Wilkins. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother Wayne Wilkins; and grandchild Stephany Wickersham. His children remember him as an honorable and giving man.
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