Obit of Wheat, John Earl (w300) - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 30 Aug 2004 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== John Earl Wheat BORGER - John Earl Wheat, 77, died Thursday, June 29, 2000. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Field of Honor at Westlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Wheat was born in Alma, Okla. He had lived in Borger for 49 years, moving from Stephenville. He served in the Army and was a retired warehouseman at Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of the Bible Baptist Church and active in the American Legion Post No. 671 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1789. Survivors include a son, John Leslie Wheat of Livingston; a daughter, Judy Faye Whitson of Kermit; and three sisters, Estelle Gilbreth of Sundown, Opal Watkins of Cortez, Colo., and Iva Hayward of Yuba City, Calif.; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. The family will be at Henryetta Apartments, Second and McGee, No. 6. Amarillo Daily News, July 1, 2000 ========= John Earl Wheat BORGER - John Earl Wheat, 77, died Thursday, June 29, 2000. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Field of Honor at Westlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Wheat was born in Alma, Okla. He had lived in Borger for 49 years, moving from Stephenville. He served in the Army and was a retired warehouseman at Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of the Bible Baptist Church and active in the American Legion Post No. 671 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1789. Survivors include a son, John Leslie Wheat of Livingston; a daughter, Judy Faye Whitson of Kermit; and three sisters, Estelle Gilbreth of Sundown, Opal Watkins of Cortez, Colo., and Iva Hayward of Yuba City, Calif.; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. The family will be at Henryetta Apartments, Second and McGee, No. 6. Amarillo Sunday News-Globe July 2, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm