Georgia:  Decatur County:  Obituary of Dr. Robert Forne Wheat
12 September 1957

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Dr. R. F. Wheat Prominent Citizen, Dies; Last Rites Held

Funeral services for Dr. Robert Forne Wheat, 77, who died in a local hospital
last Thursday after an illness of several weeks, were held Friday, September
6th.

Services were conducted by the Reverend James T. Burrell, assisted by Dr. B.
Frank Cochran and Dr. Charles Bishop at the First Baptist Church. Interment
followed in Oak City Cemetery with E. W. Cox and Sons Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.

A native of Pearl River County, Mississippi, Dr. Wheat had resided in
Bainbridge since 1906 and was one of the most prominent citizens. he had
been associated with the Riverside Hospital and Clinic here since 1918, and
served for a number of years as a member of the State Board of Medical
Examiners. He held membership in the Georgia Medical Association, Southern
Medical Association and the Decatur-Seminole County Medical Association. He
was also chairman of the Decatur County Board of Health. Dr. Wheat was a
trustee of Shorter College at Rome; chairman of the loan committee of the
board of directors of the First State National Bank; chairman of the
Bainbridge Board of Trustees for the city schools, and was chairman emeritus
of the board of deacons of the First Baptist Church. He was also a member of
Orion Lodge No. 8 A. & F. M.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sarah Alice Chason Wheat; one son, Osler C.
Wheat of Jacksonville, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. John T. McCall, Jr. of
Rome, Mrs. W. A. Wardell of Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs. Carl S. Fryer, Jr. of
Quincy, Fla.; one brother, B. L. Wheat of Poplarville, Mississippi, and three
sisters, Mrs. Monroe Stewart of Poplarville, Mississippi, Mrs. Hiram Newman
and Mrs. J. L. Rainville, both of Bogalusa, La.

Active pallbearers were Frank Jones, Reuben Reynolds, R. E. Rowan, Herbert
Nussbaum, Gerard Kwilecki, Dr. Earl DuPree, Herman Lee Metcalf and James
Penny.

Serving as an honorary escort were all ordained deacons of the First Baptist
Church, officers and directors of the First State National Bank; members of
the Decatur County Medical Association, trustees of the Bainbridge Schools,
and trustees of the Decatur County Board of Health.

Source: The Post-Searchlight Thursday, September 12, 1957. Front Page & Page
3. Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia.

*Note* Robert Forne Wheat, M. D. was born 16 December 1879 in Pearl River
Co., Mississippi. He was married 15 April 1908 in Decatur Co., GA Book E,
Page 149 to Sarah Alice Chason.

Submitted by: Brenda King McNair < Bmcnair614@aol.com