NAME: MINNIE B. (MOWREY) WHEELER, 92, A LONGTIME ATOKA RESIDENT.

BORN: JANUARY 6, 1909 AT WAPANUCKA TO MARION AND OLIE (BEATY) MOWREY.

PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2001 AT THE MEDICAL CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA IN DURANT. AGE: 92 YEARS AND 28 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED ELEMENTARY IN COAL COUNTY. GRADUATED FROM ADA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1928 SHE ATTENDED EAST CENTRAL STATE AND GRADUATED FROM SOUTHEASTERN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE. SHE DID SOME GRADUATE WORK FROM OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY.

MARRIED: FELIX BOB WHEELER ON AUGUST 10, 1929 AT ADA, OK.

OCCUPATION: MINNIE TAUGHT SCHOOL FOR 30 YEARS. FIRST AT IRON STOB AND OVER 28 YEARS AT LANE. SHE SUBSTITUTED MANY YEARS AFTER SHE RETIRED.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: SHE WAS A MEMBER OF LANE BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE SHE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL OVER 57 YEARS.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EASTERN STAR AND THE ATOKA COUNTY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

SURVIVED BY

CHILDREN: BOBBIE WILSON AND HUSBAND DALE OF ATOKA, OK. JIMMY WHEELER AND WIFE JERIE OF ATOKA, OK.

GRANDDAUGHTER: KAREN WILSON OF ATOKA, OK.

GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER: NIKKI LEE OF ATOKA, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

HUSBAND: BOB WHEELER ON MAY 23, 1986. PARENTS: MARION AND OLIE MOWREY. SISTERS: ANNIE WITHROW AND IRA MARIE KARR. BROTHER: CLAUD CRABTREE.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2001 AT 10:00 AM PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK,

OFFICIATING: REV. BARTT BRADFORD. ASSISTING: JOHNNY FAULKENBERRY.

CASKETBEARERS: RONNIE DODSON, DON MCGINTY, LESTER BRADFORD, JOHNNY FAULKENBERRY, CHARLES ROBERSON, PAT KENNEDY, JUSTIN HUMPHREY.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DARRELL REECE, BOB FORAN, PINKY BURKHALTER.