SHAWNEE COUNTY KANSAS - Obituary: Delbert WHEELER

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The Topeka Daily Capital
Friday
January 1, 1965

City Resident Dies Following Brief Illness.

Delbert WHEELER, 79, 2406 Harrison died in a Topeka hospital after 
a short illness.

He was born Feb. 16, 1885, at Ireton, Iowa, and lived in Topeka 
since 1945. He was a graduate of Iowa State University where he 
received a civil engineering degree.

He was president-manager of Consolidate Sand and Stone Company 
at Sioux Falls and Spencer, S.D., until he sold the business in 
1945 and moved to Topeka. He established the limestone quarry at 
Williamstown in Jefferson County and sold it in 1949. 

Mr .Wheeler invented several pieces of scientific equipment for 
testing aggregates in recent years and obtained patents for them.

He was a member of First Presbyterian Church at Sioux Falls and 
attended Westminister Presbyterian Church in Topeka. He was an 
elder in the Presbyterian Church many years.

Survivors include his wife, Pearl, at home; a son, Howard R. 
Wheeler, Mount Vernon, Ill.; two daughters, Mrs. Goerge FEWSON, 
Duluth, Minn., and Mrs. Wendell WEED, Minneapolis, Minn.; three 
sisters, Mrs. Nell WRIGHT, Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Mabel SEARLE, 
Faribault, Minn., and Mrs. Edna McGREGOR, Garden Grove, Calif., 
six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Miller Funeral Home, Sioux 
Falls. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery at Sioux Falls. Mr. 
Wheeler will lie in state from noon today until 10 p.m. Saturday 
at Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, Topeka.