Wilkie Conner
October 13, 1918 – October 9, 1998 (aged 79)
Might be <a href="https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20257050">this</a> Wilkie Conner (1918-1998). There is a brief obituary in a letter published in "Challanger No 10", available on fanac.org here: https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Challenger/Challenger10.pdf. This was published in Autumn of 1999, which is a year later than the death date shown at Find a Grave. According to the Challenger letter, he worked at the "textile mills in Gastonia" North Carolina, and Find a Grave shows the gravesite to be in Gastonia, North Carolina. As such, we should accept the Find a Grave data.