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Cherlyn Wilkerson

September 16, 2021

Mrs. Cherlyn McCranie Wilkerson, 74, of Bell, Florida passed away on September 16, 2021 at UF Health Shands Hospital, surrounded by her five children. She was born on November 30, 1946 to Clyde and Saralee McCranie in Waycross, Georgia. Cherlyn graduated from Gainesville High School and married Mason Franklin Wilkerson, of Trenton, Fl at the age of 18. She was an amazing mother of five children and a housewife for almost 30 years before beginning her career as a CNA. She spread her love and compassion to so many home health patients for over 20 years, before retiring. Cherlyn loved to shop, travel, laugh, and spend time doing anything and everything with her family. Family time was everything to her and she was everything to her family.

Cherlyn is survived by her husband of 56 years, Mason Wilkerson; daughter Robin (Stanley) Stearns of Lakeland, Fl; daughter Lisa (Dewey) Cox of Plant City, Fl; daughter Kimberly Stevens of Lakeland, Fl; son Kevin (Shanna) Wilkerson of Trenton, Fl; daughter Amy Watson of Bell, Fl; 16 grandchildren, Blake, Justin, Tiffany, Kadie, Kylee, Tyler, Shaye, Haylee, Gage, Hayden, Easton, Taylor, Jesse, Holden, Aubree, & Brody; 11 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father Clyde McCranie; mother Saralee Sims McCranie; brother James McCranie; brother Gary McCranie; sister Tina Carter.

Crevasse's Simple Cremation is honored to the Wilkerson Family.

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  1. How can you be gone? 74 short years of life was taken from you with so much more to live. you were the most kind and caring person i had ever met. i love you unconditionally nana poohbear. fly high my beautiful angel. i miss you every day.

  2. I can’t believe you are gone. I miss you so much! Thank you for being the BEST mom and always loving us so unconditionally. Strongest woman I know and my best friend. Life will never be the same without you in it. Fly high and rest easy mama. I love you so much !! 


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