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James Wilbanks

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[ James T. Wilbanks, 71, passed away on Feb. 3, 2008, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Destin, Fla., from complications after surgery.

He was born in Du Quoin to Earl and Lola (Campbell) Wilbanks on July 8, 1936. He attended Sacred Heart School and Du Quoin Township High School. He left the area in 1955 and lived in Park Hills, Mo., until 2007 when he went to live in Destin, Fla.

He is survived by two daughters, Andrea Wilbanks and Stephanie Wilbanks; a son, Kenneth Wilbanks; one brother, Bill Wilbanks of Pacific, Mo.; one sister, Dorothy Bedar Collins of Du Quoin; one granddaughter, Kendra Ann McClanhan; two grandons, Micheal James McClanhan and Zachary McClanhan of Desloge, Mo.

He was preceeded in death by his parents and three brothers, Bobby Wilbanks, Kenneth Wilbanks and Earl Wilbanks Jr.; and one daughter, Jamie McClanhan. He was cremated and his ashes buried by his daughter Jamie McClanhan in Desloge, Mo.