Deaths [63025]

63025
Wheeler
Gerald Ray
2/17/2023
11/18/1941
3/1/2023
Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Jacksonville, Randolph County, MO
Aged 81; (US Army Veteran Vietnam/worked in his father's logging business/was active in the Higbee Area Fire Protection District for 41 years as chief, driver and engineer); son of the late Carl Wheeler, Sr. & the late Katie Justy (Longbine) Wheeler (b. 11/18/1941 Crocker, Pulaski County, MO); 1944 graduate of Higbee High School (Higbee, Randolph County, MO); former husband of Sandra Ann (Dougherty) Wheeler Wilcox (m. 8/10/1968 Moberly, Randolph County, MO) & she survives; father of Christopher Morrison "Chris" Wheeler; brother of Carl Wheeler, Jr., Ethel Elaine (Wheeler) Torri, Robert Estel Wheeler, & the late Gordon Arthur Wheeler; half-brother of the late Henry Gene Longbine