Wilkinson played softball from 1933 to 1965, helping her team, the Phoenix Ramblers, to the national title in 1940, 1948, and 1949. Among her feats, she batted an average of .455 in 1954, .450 in 1955, and .387 on the
Ramblers championship runner up year of 1957. Wilkinson was inducted into the
National Softball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1970, her first year of eligibility. She was inducted into the
International Bowling Hall of Fame twenty years later, in 1990. Wilkinson occasionally attended high school, college and tournament softball games in
Arizona, where she and some of her former teammates were honored frequently.
The Arizona Republic newspaper chose her at number eight among Arizona's all-time greatest athletes in 1999. As of April 2020, Wilkinson was the oldest living member of the
Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. She
turned 100 in October 2021, and died in Phoenix on March 18, 2023, at the age of 101. ==Honours==