Mrs. Zelma Mae Delk Pilkington

September 8, 1919 - January 21, 2015

Mrs. Zelma Mae Delk Pilkington, age 95, of Shelbyville, passed away Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Funeral services will be 2 PM Sunday, January 25, 2015, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Brother Bobby McGee will officiate, with burial to follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. The family will receive visitors from 12 noon until service time Sunday. She was born September 8, 1919, in Bedford County, to the late Joe Pitts Delk and Kitty Mae Prince Delk. She was a homemaker and member of Calvary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her first husband, William Hoyte Thompson, who was lost at sea in 1945, somewhere in the Philippines. Her second husband, James Pilkington, preceded her in death in 2013. She was also preceded in death by two sons, Danny and Mike Pilkington, three brothers, Gentry Delk, William Earl Delk, and Joe Lewis Delk, and a grandson, David King. Survivors include two daughters, Shirley Ann King, and her husband Carl, of Lewisburg, and Betty Lorraine Landers, and her husband Doyle, of Knoxville; two sons, Rudy Pilkington, and his wife Dawn, and Tony Pilkington, all of Shelbyville; six grandchildren, Sherry Gleghorn, and her husband Kelvin, Eddie Landers, and his wife Stacey, Yolanda Vannoy, Donna Smith, and her husband Brian, Christi Donaldson, and her husband Nathan, and Evan Pilkington; four great grandchildren, Ashley Fields, and her husband William, John Allen Gleghorn, Lee Vannoy, and his wife Kerri, and Nathan Landers; three great great grandchildren, Layne Fields, Hardie Fields, and Macon Marie Vannoy. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements.