KENNY LOVED RECORDING CD'S.  HE WOULD BUY A CD THEN MAKE A COPY TO PLAY AND KEEP THE ORIGINAL PUT UP SO WHEN THAT ONE WORE OUT, HE COULD RECORD IT AGAIN.

KENNY'S FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS WERE SWAMP PEOPLE. SWAMP LOGGERS, PAWN STARS, OPERATION REPO, ORANGE COUNTY CHOPPERS, LIZZARDS LICK, HELL ON WHEELS, COPS AND AUSTIN CITY LIMITS.

HE SET THE DVR TO RECORD AUSTIN CITY LIMITS AND HELL ON WHEELS EVERY WEEK.  I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL ONE NIGHT THEY WERE RECORDING AND I KNEW I HAD NOT RECORDED THEM.  THEN I REALIZED HE HAD THEM SET TO RECORD.  I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO NOT MAKE IT RECORD EVERY WEEK, SO I LEFT IT ALONE.  HE SET IT THAT WAY AND IT WILL STAY THAT WAY. 

HE LIKED TROY ON SWAMP PEOPLE.  HE WAS ALL THE TIME SAYING "CHOOTEM" AND HE LIKED SHELBY ON SWAMP LOGGERS.  HE WAS ALL THE TIME SAYING "HERE WE GO."  HE WATCHED THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL ALL THE TIME.

KENNY LOVED COFFEE.  HE DRANK COFFEE ALL YEAR ROUND.  EVEN INTHESUMMER TIME HE DRANK COFFEE ALL DAY LONG.  I ASK HIM HOW HE AND AUNT PEARL CAN  DRINK SO MUCH COFFEE IN THE SUMMER TIME AS HOT  AS IT IS .     

KENNY ALWAYS SLEPT WITH  A FAN BLOWING ON HIM EVEN IN THE WINTER TIME.  HE FROZE ME.                                                                                                                   

KENNY LOVED AIRPLANES TOO.  I HAVE A PHOTO ALBUM FULL OF AIRPLANES HE TOOK AT THE AIRPORT WHEN HE WORKED AT GRACE AVIATION WITH OUR PASTER JOHN HUDSON.

WHEN KENNY LIVED IN HENRY (INDIANTOWN), HE AND ROBERT ERVIN FLEW TO FLORIDA (I THINK IT WAS) JUST ON A WHIM.

KENNY LIKED MOTORCYCLES TOO.  HE HAD A HARLEY ONCE, BUT SOLD IT.  I HAVE A PHOTO OF HIM SITTING ON THE MOTORCYCLE AT BLACK RIVER WITH HIS DADDYSITTING IN HIS PATROL CAR WITH RANDY STONE STANDING BESIDE HIM.

KENNY COULD DO ALMOST ANYTHING.  HE WORKED AT THE SERVICE STATION (AS A CHILD) THAT HIS DADDY HAD.  HE WORKED AT DREXELS. 
HE WORKED AT EAST SIDE MOTORS.  HE DROVE LONG DISTANCE TRUCKS FOR SHELLY MCKENZIE.  HE WORKED AS A JAILER AT THE WILLIAMSBURG SHERIFF DEPARTMENT WHEN HIS DADDY WAS CHIEF DEPUTY.  HE WENT TO FLORIDA WITH FROG AND SON MCCUTCHEN WHEN THE HURRICANE HIT.  HE WORKED FOR MIKE CARTER IN HEMINGWAY AS A MECHANIC AND WAS ALSO SELF-EMPLOYED AS A MECHANIC.

KENNY LOVED MUSIC.  HE LOVED ALL KINDS OF MUSIC.  HIS FAVORITES WERE AC/DC, HANK WILLIAMS, JR. AND ALLISON KRAUSS.  HE AlSO LIKED WAYLON JENNINGS, ALAN JACKSON, JOHN MELLONCAMP, TOM PETTY, CCR, BOB SEGER, ROLLING STONES, ERIC CLAPTON AND JAMES TAYLOR.

KENNY WAS IN A BAND AROUND 1975 OR 1976 ALONG WITH BEN PACK ON GUITAR, JIMMY PARROTT ON GUITAR, RAYMOND BOWAR ON DRUMS.  CATHY PARROTT SANG AND BEN TOO.  KENNY PLAYED BASS GUITAR. BEN HAS PICTURES OF THEM PLAYING MUSIC AND IS SUPPOSE TO GET US A COPY.

IN RECENT YEARS, KENNY TALKED ALOT ABOUT WANTING TO GO FISHING WITH HIS BROTHERS BUT NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO DO SO.

KENNY LOVED FISHING, NASCAR RACING AND WRESTLING.  DALE EARNHARDT, SR. WAS HIS FAVORITE DRIVER.  THEN WHEN DALE SR. DIED, DALE EARNHARDT, JR. BECAME HIS FAVORITE. BUT HE NEVER FORGOT ABOUT DALE, SR. THE WHOLE WILKES FAMILY ARE EARNHARDT FANS.  HE LIKED CAMPING TOO.  HE BOUGHT A THREE ROOM TENT THAT SLEEPS TEN PEOPLE .  WE NEVER GOT TO USE IT.

KENNY'S FAVORITE WRESTLER WAS THE UNDERTAKER.  I STILL CAN'T WATCH WRESTLING BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY MEMORIES OF KENNY, AUNT PEARL AND I WATCHING IT AT AUNT PEARL'S HOUSE.  JOHN CENA WAS AUNT PEARL'S FAVORITE AND MINE.  KENNY'S MAMA LIKED WRESTLING TOO.  I'M NOT SURE WHO HER FAVORITE WAS, BUT KENNY ALWAYS KIDDED HER THAT THE UNDERTAKER WAS HER FAVORITE.  SHE DID NOT LIKE THE UNDERTAKER.

KENNY, KAREN HUDSON POWELL AND DON DUKE CALLED THEMSELVES SCRAPLOGISTS.  THEY WENT EVERYWHERE LOOKING FOR SCRAP.  AFTER I QUIT WORKING, I WENT WITH THEM.  THEY TORE DOWN A MOBILE HOME BESIDE KAREN'S HOUSE AND SCRAPED IT.  KENNY AND I SCRAP OUR MITSUBISHI.

KENNY'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS BLACK.  I HAVE A CLOSET FULL OF BLACK T-SHIRTS MOSTLY WITH SKULLS ON THEM.  HE LOVED CROSSES, WATCHES. SKULLS, HATS AND SUNGLASSES.   WHERE EVER HE WENT HE HAD ON HIS BLACK T-SHIRT, BLACK PANTS, BLACK HAT, HIS CROSS NECKLACE AND HIS SUNGLASSES AND OF COURSE A CIGAR IN HIS HAND.

KENNY WAS BORN KENNETH RAY WILKES ON 08/29/1955 IN LAKE CITY, SOUTH CAROLINA TO DON WILKES AND MARY WILKES.  HE WAS A NATURAL BORN MECHANIC.  HE COULD TEAR A MOTOR DOWN AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER BLINDFOLDED.  THAT IS HOW GOOD HE WAS.  HE COULD FIX ANYTHING AND IF HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW HE WOULD NOT STOP UNTIL HE FIGURED IT OUT AND GOT IT FIXED AND DONE RIGHT.  I ALWAYS TOLD HIM HE WAS THE SMARTEST PERSON I KNOW AND THAT IS SO TRUE.