Arthur Lee “Art” Wilkens
Arthur Lee “Art” Wilkens, of Stockton, passed away on July 7, 2023, at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville, at the age of 87.
He was born on April 2, 1936, the third son of Charley and Jessie (Herren) Wilkens at the family farm home in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Art attended Walnut Grove country school through 8th grade, then Regis (a catholic boarding school) in Denver, Colo., his freshman year of high school. He then went to St. Joseph’s Military Academy in Hays for his sophomore year but graduated from McDonald Rural High in 1953.