Arthur A. Wilkinson (1936-1950), 13, son of Mrs. Corene Wilkinson who lives near the Palatka City limits on the Lake City Highway, was drowned in Silver Lake yesterday afternoon. He was swimming with a party including his sister, Edna Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Glisson and Harold Varnes, at the time of the accident.
Sheriff W. J. Revels, who assisted in recovering the youth’s body, said he was paddling on an inflated innertube towards the middle of the lake and as he attempted to turn around to return to shore he fell from his float and apparently became panicky and tired to swim to shore.
Help was near when he went down but he could not be found in the 16 to 20 feet of water until the Palatka Fire Department dragging equipment could be obtained and a boat arrived for the dragging operations.
He was in the water approximately 45 minutes, before being found. Immediately upon being taken from the water the Fire Department pulmotor was used in an effort to revive him, but every effort failed and he was pronounced dead by Dr. G. M. Zeigler at 4:25.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Lemon Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Herschel Ward officiating. Interment will be made in the Bardin Cemetery under the direction of W. Carl Davis and Son.
Surviving are the parents, Everett and Mrs. Corene Wilkinson, sister, Edna Wilkinson, brothers, Davis Amos and Sam Wilkinson, Palatka; grandfather, J. E. Hogarth, Sanford, and grandmother, Mrs. Lilas Moss, Bardin. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd Monday, 18 Sep 1950.)
Sheriff W. J. Revels, who assisted in recovering the youth’s body, said he was paddling on an inflated innertube towards the middle of the lake and as he attempted to turn around to return to shore he fell from his float and apparently became panicky and tired to swim to shore.
Help was near when he went down but he could not be found in the 16 to 20 feet of water until the Palatka Fire Department dragging equipment could be obtained and a boat arrived for the dragging operations.
He was in the water approximately 45 minutes, before being found. Immediately upon being taken from the water the Fire Department pulmotor was used in an effort to revive him, but every effort failed and he was pronounced dead by Dr. G. M. Zeigler at 4:25.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Lemon Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Herschel Ward officiating. Interment will be made in the Bardin Cemetery under the direction of W. Carl Davis and Son.
Surviving are the parents, Everett and Mrs. Corene Wilkinson, sister, Edna Wilkinson, brothers, Davis Amos and Sam Wilkinson, Palatka; grandfather, J. E. Hogarth, Sanford, and grandmother, Mrs. Lilas Moss, Bardin. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd Monday, 18 Sep 1950.)
Arthur A. Wilkinson (1936-1950), 13, son of Mrs. Corene Wilkinson who lives near the Palatka City limits on the Lake City Highway, was drowned in Silver Lake yesterday afternoon. He was swimming with a party including his sister, Edna Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Glisson and Harold Varnes, at the time of the accident.
Sheriff W. J. Revels, who assisted in recovering the youth’s body, said he was paddling on an inflated innertube towards the middle of the lake and as he attempted to turn around to return to shore he fell from his float and apparently became panicky and tired to swim to shore.
Help was near when he went down but he could not be found in the 16 to 20 feet of water until the Palatka Fire Department dragging equipment could be obtained and a boat arrived for the dragging operations.
He was in the water approximately 45 minutes, before being found. Immediately upon being taken from the water the Fire Department pulmotor was used in an effort to revive him, but every effort failed and he was pronounced dead by Dr. G. M. Zeigler at 4:25.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Lemon Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Herschel Ward officiating. Interment will be made in the Bardin Cemetery under the direction of W. Carl Davis and Son.
Surviving are the parents, Everett and Mrs. Corene Wilkinson, sister, Edna Wilkinson, brothers, Davis Amos and Sam Wilkinson, Palatka; grandfather, J. E. Hogarth, Sanford, and grandmother, Mrs. Lilas Moss, Bardin. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd Monday, 18 Sep 1950.)
Sheriff W. J. Revels, who assisted in recovering the youth’s body, said he was paddling on an inflated innertube towards the middle of the lake and as he attempted to turn around to return to shore he fell from his float and apparently became panicky and tired to swim to shore.
Help was near when he went down but he could not be found in the 16 to 20 feet of water until the Palatka Fire Department dragging equipment could be obtained and a boat arrived for the dragging operations.
He was in the water approximately 45 minutes, before being found. Immediately upon being taken from the water the Fire Department pulmotor was used in an effort to revive him, but every effort failed and he was pronounced dead by Dr. G. M. Zeigler at 4:25.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Lemon Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Herschel Ward officiating. Interment will be made in the Bardin Cemetery under the direction of W. Carl Davis and Son.
Surviving are the parents, Everett and Mrs. Corene Wilkinson, sister, Edna Wilkinson, brothers, Davis Amos and Sam Wilkinson, Palatka; grandfather, J. E. Hogarth, Sanford, and grandmother, Mrs. Lilas Moss, Bardin. (Palatka Daily News Obituary dtd Monday, 18 Sep 1950.)
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