Following a lengthy illness, Robert Bradley Wilks, age 73, passed from this earthly life on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Known by friends and family as “ Bob”, he was preceded in death by his father, Robert H. Wilks and mother, Elizabeth Gravlee Wilks.
A native of Birmingham, Bob was a graduate of Fairfield High School where he began a lifelong interest in music. He attended Auburn University where he played saxophone and marched in the Auburn Tiger Band as well as playing in the swing band The Auburn Knights.
His Christian faith included baptism as a young boy at Fairfield First Baptist Church. In recent years he was a member of Lakeside Baptist Church where he continued participation in praise choir and orchestral music until his health declined.
Following his years at Auburn, Bob pursued a career in sales combined with his interest in cars. He was a highly regarded salesman at Bart Starr Lincoln Mercury in Birmingham for many years. Later, Bob continued his career in sales combined with his interest in health foods.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at Adams- Brown Service Funeral Home in Albertville, Alabama on Sunday afternoon, July 31 at 2 P.M. Interment will follow at the Memory Hill Cemetery in Albertville.
