Monongah’s Rose Wilkins, 99, passes

Long-ago Monongah Post Office worker Rose Mary Wilkins, 99, mother of Shirley Ann Wilkins of Monongah, passed away Tuesday.

Her nephew, Pastor Floyd Spatafore, will officiate at her funeral service.

Rose Mary Wilkins

1980 North Marion grad (after 3 years at Monongah High) Adam Michna, son of 1938 Fairmont St. Peter High School grad Adam Michna and 1948 Mannington High grad Katherine Dering Michna, remembers Rose:

“Lots of folks don't know or remember her. I remember her as working at the Monongah Post Office at the corner of Bridge and Main Street. I even remember the smell of that building, and am sure you do, too. She was old when I was a kid. I have done the math. I guess some of the little rug-rats in Monongah think I'm at least 2,000 years old.”

More like 50something, Adam.

If you have memories of Rose or the Wilkins family, or the Biafore and Spatafore families that produced Rose, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and I’ll add them to this Monongah High Alumni blog article on Rose.

Rose’s obituary:

Rose Mary Wilkins
(May 30, 1915 - August 12, 2014)

Rose Mary Wilkins, 99, of Monongah passed away Tuesday August 12, 2014 at the Pierpont Center Fairmont Campus. She was born May 30, 1915 in Kingmont, WV daughter of the late Louis and Antonette (Biafore) Spatafore.

Rose was Methodist by faith. She was a loving wife, mother and homemaker. She especially enjoyed cooking, collecting figurines and loved flowers.

She is survived by her two children, Floyd Lewis Wilkins and wife Shirley Louise of Zanesville, OH, Shirley Ann Wilkins and companion David Trimble of Monongah; one grandson, Jeff Wilkins of Zanesville, OH; and a niece, Margaret Salibor of Fairmont.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Samuel Wilkins; an infant daughter; a grandson, Jamie Wilkins; and a cousin, Rose Alvaro. fourteen siblings also preceded her in death.

The family will receive friends at Domico Funeral Home, 414 Gaston Ave. in Fairmont from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 9 to 10 a.m. Friday. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday August 15, in the funeral home with Rose’s nephew Pastor Floyd Spatafore officiating. 

Interment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont. Condolences may be sent online to the family at www.domicofh.com .