South Yorkshire Times April 4, 1959.

Obituary – Mrs A Kilner,
Famous Wombwell Cricketer’s Widow.

A day of deep Pathos in the sporting history of Wombwell in particular and the country in general was recalled by the death on Sunday of Mrs Annie Kilner, aged 68, in a nursing home at Otley.

She was widow of Mr Roy Kilner, former Yorkshire and England cricketer, who died of fever at the height of his career in April, 1928, at the age of 37, and was buried in Wombwell Cemetery with mourners present from all over the country. Roy was a member of a family of seven sons and four daughters of the late Mr and Mrs Seth Kilner, licensees of the Half Way, House Hotel, Wombwell, and died shortly after returning from a winter cricket engagement in India as a guest of the Maharajah of Patiala. He was universally mourned and his funeral was certainly the biggest ever seen in Wombwell. Scores of international sporting personalities have since visited his grave.

Mrs Kilner was a daughter of the late Mr James Camplejohn, for many years enginewright at Darfield Main colliery, and one of the original partners in the Darfield firm of CambleJohn brothers, motorcoach proprietors, formed in 1905.

After Roy Kilner’s death she lived for some years in the Wakefield district and recently had been living with her son. Mr Roy Kilner at Whitehall Road, Westfield, Wyke Bradford. There is a younger son, Major Bernard Kilner (named after cricketer Major Booth, and uncle Bernard Kilner), who now holds high-rank in  the Ghana military forces. He was over in his this country at his mother’s death.

Mrs Kilner’s brother Mr William Camplejohn, who was retired from the bus firm, lived in Lundhill Rd, Wombwell. Her sister Mrs Eleanor Coe in Saltersbrook Road, Darfield, and another sister, Mrs Elizabeth Short, at Rotherham.

The body was brought to Wombwell on Monday invested in the Wombwell Parish Church overnight, for the interment at Wombwell Cemetery on Tuesday. The funeral service at the Parish Church was conducted by the Rector of Wombwell, Canon G.W.P.  Adkins.

Mrs Kilner was buried in the same grave as her husband. Funeral director was Mr H.L.Guest, 21, Park Street, Wombwell.