Erma M. Wilkins of Boynton Beach, Florida, formerly of Southampton, died on May 10 at the Manor Care Nursing Home in Boca Raton, Florida. She was 104. Born on March 19, 1911, in Meriden, Connecticut, she met her husband, D. Clifford Wilkins, in Bridgehampton and they were married on February 21, 1931, at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. They had been married for 54 years when he died in 1985.
Ms. Wilkins was a longtime member of the Southampton Presbyterian Church and a member of the Southampton Presbyterian Church Women’s Association.
She is survived by a son, Dwight Wilkins and partner Doreen Robinson; three grandchildren, Christine King, Susanne McKenzie and Matthew Topping; and two great-grandchildren, Kyle McKenzie and Adrienne Torres. A daughter, Loretta Topping, and a brother, H. Floyd Jones, predeceased her.
The family received friends on May 14 at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton, where a funeral service was conducted by the Reverend Dr. Rick Boyer, pastor of the Southampton Presbyterian Church. Interment followed at Southampton Cemetery.