Mary Catlett Wilkerson

Mary Catlett Wilkerson, of Smithville, MO died peacefully in Kansas City, MO on March 18, 2007.

Mary was born in 1927 in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Lawrence Catlett. She graduated from Colorado College in 1949 and was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority. Mary received advanced degrees in Chemistry and Biology at Vanderbilt University. She married Robert Brinkley Wilkerson III in 1952. She was "Weather Watcher" in Smithville for Fox 4 for ten years. She started a library reading club and was a member of the Garden Club.

She is survived by her two children, Richard Catlett Wilkerson of San Francisco, CA and Anne Wilkerson Allen of Smithville, MO; two grandchildren, Matthew Lytton Allen, Margaret Clare Allen; her nephew, Michael Lee Orme and her niece, Amy Catlett Reddell. Mary requested cremation.

Visitation: 7:00-8:30 p.m. Friday at the Hixson-Klein Funeral Home, 104 Church Street, in Smithville, MO.
Memorial Mass: 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 31^st at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church on Commercial and 92 Hwy in Smithville.
If you cannot attend but wish to send an acknowledgment, please contact her daughter at:
mom.allen1120@sbcglobal.net

In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions be made in Mary's memory to St. Luke's Hospice, 3100 Broadway St., Suite 1000, Kansas City, MO 64111