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Noel H. "Fisty" Wilkins Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, December 21, 1988

Noel H. "Fisty" Wilkins Jr., 60, died Dec. 10 at his residence in Baton Rouge after a short illness. 
Burial was in Port Hudson National Cemetery.

Wilkins was a native of Natchez and a former resident of Tallulah. He was an all-state football player 
at THS, a U.S. Navy veteran of WWII and the Korean conflict. Wilkins attended Southeastern Louisiana 
College, where he was an all-American in football. Wilkins received a B.S. degree in education from 
Southeastern and a master's degree from LSU. He was head football coach at Zachary High from 1954-1960. 
He was a retired educator from the East Baton Rouge schools at the time of his death.

Survivors include one daughter, Teddi Patterson of Bountiful, Utah; one son, Rodney Wilkins of Baton Rouge; 
two brothers, Hubert Wilkins of Tallulah and Larkin Wilkins: five grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Butch Chaney, Vic Stelly, Buddy Wicker, Edward Dean, Dale LaBlanc, Joe Carroway, Earl Phillips, 
Ronnie Morgan and Johnny Raqusa.