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Pioneer Citizenof Aransas Pass Dies on TuesdayMrs. Ida De Berry Wheeler will be Buried Here Today.Funeral services were to be held at the grave in Prairie View cemetery at 3:00 o’clock this afternoon for Mrs. Ida De Berry Wheeler,wife of the former lieutenant-governor of Texas, T. B. Wheeler, who i died at her home in San Antoniolate Tuesday.Mrs. Wheeler, who with her husband had been intimately connected with the early history of Aransas Pass, had been in failing health for some time. She was the daughter j of Judge A. W. DeBerry, a prominent attorney of this section at the turn of the century.She is survived by a son, J. D. Wheeler, San Antonio attorney; a daughter, Mrs. R. C. Patterson ol Houston; a si-ster, Mrs. Fannie W ilson of San Antonio; and four grand children, Asa Bordages of New York City, Wheeler Bordages of Houston, R. C. Patterson of Houston and Sterling Wheeler or SanAntonio.T. B. Wheeler was lieutenant-governor of Texas from 188*5 to 1890, coming to Aransas Pass soon atter completing his term of office. He laid out the townsite and was prominent in the land auctions of townsite property in 1890 and 1891. He died February 21, 1913.!wtoRievaWiviv
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Aransas Pass Progress
Aransas Pass, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1939
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