Sara Wilkins Sara Wilkins died June 16...

Sara Wilkins

Sara Wilkins died June 16 in Camarillo. She was 95.

Born in Tarentum, Pa., Mrs. Wilkins moved to South Laguna in the

early 1970s.

Mrs. Wilkins was active in the South Laguna Civic Assn. and worked

with her husband, Hugh, to limit development on the hillsides above

the community, as well as the congestion on Coast Highway.

The couple moved to Laguna Hlls in the mid-1990s and Mrs. Wilkins

moved to Camarillo after her husband’s death. During the 1930s and

‘40s, the Wilkinses were active in organizations like the Labor’s

Non-Partisan League for which she was threatened with exposure as a

“red” and quit her job. She then became a court reporter and in 1954

took the exam for a position serving the Superior Court. Due to

blacklisting, she withdrew her application and became a private court

reporter, a job she held until 1971.

Mrs. Wilkins is preceded in death by her husband and siblings,

Gwenllian Haddock Williams, Helen Elsbeth Haddock Morgan and George

Zimmerman Haddock.

She is survived by two step-grand-nephews and their children; and

nieces and nephews and their children.

Wilkins had requested there be no formal memorial service. Her

friends will be gathering at the home of Ann Christoph and Alfredo

Careaga at 2 p.m. June 29. For more information or reservations, call

(949) 499-3574.