Happy Birthday, Papa!

My Grandfather, Donald Munroe Wilkinson

23 October 1895 - 24 July 1977

He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Albert Munroe Wilkinson and Isabella Lyons Bill.  He graduated from Salem High School, where he lived at 4 Loring Avenue. His first job was for the Salem Safe Depostit and Trust Company as a messenger, and then for the Salem Savings Bank as a bank clerk.  Later he was the shipping inspector at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Beverly.  He married Bertha Louise Roberts on 26 November 1926.  He raised his family of three boys at 7 Dearborn Avenue, which was his father-in-law's house, and later the house where I grew up.  After retirement Papa and Grammy Wilkinson removed to Long Beach, California. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Happy Birthday, Papa!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 23, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/10/happy-birthday-papa.html: accessed [access date]).