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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1963
Page
1
Henderson correspondent reports on community visits and family gatherings. Mentions Mrs Den Piente, A. J. Harbors, the Harver Belton family, Emerson and Stevie Shook, and a reunion planned by Elias Wilber. References to the TLC, CLYLFL Conference, and various Sunday visits across neighbors, with meals and hospitality noted.
Rev. Clement Reve leads service at Henderson Methodist Church with Pastor Arthur Allensworth. Morning worship 5am today. School 4:45pm. W.S.C. meets Wednesday. Junior choir practice at 7:30. Tuesday pastor M.Y.F. meets each Sunday evening.
A 50th anniversary event for the Harbors is noted at Opex House in Sandsy with June 38 timing from 2 to ?loth at Morris Harbor residence honoring Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harbor. A guest list includes Virginie Ariemne, Derethy, Marrs, and many locals, with ice creams and cake planned for Jaegen's birthday.
Red Oak community notes list visiting friends and events at Guiry Honeyman and the Oaks Missionary Circle. New officers installed include President Ralph Cole and Vice President John Walker, with lessons on the Holy Spirit and You.
Merrill Sowers serves as superintendent with Sunday School at 9:16 am and worship at 11 am. Choir practice Thursday evening and a Young People's service on the first and third Sundays. Sunday School attendance listed as 72. Visitors noted, offerings total $14.07. Guest speaker Derrell Scott of Omaha also spoke at Hawthorne Church. Several local families and visitors are listed, including Don Janis and family, Jack Vannausdle, Bill Vickers, and missionary plans for the Janis family to Guadeloupe.
In Red Oak an event involving Silvia was noted, with unclear wording about Hotersen and Mrs d Mrs. Silvia. The fragment mentions Chrinofersen and a marked end at a location called Trerner, but details are garbled and uncertain.
Funeral services for W. W. Wheeler were held Thursday June 20 at 2 p m at the First Christian church in Glenwood with Rev. Clyde Mosher officiating. Casket bearers were Claude Davis Carl Phelps Gay Thomas Willard Stivers Myron Jones and Art Goehring Ushers were Robert Stivers and Ray Hiley. The obituary notes he was born December 8 1878 in Glenwood died June 17 1963 at the Nishna Cottage Malvern aged 84 years six months and nine days. He lived mostly in Mills county except for a period in Nebraska. He married Nellie Wright on November 27 1906 and farmed east of Glenwood until retirement to Glenwood in 1942. He and Nellie had seven children: Bert Malvern Charlie Des Moines Thelma McClurkin Washington DC Helen Leu Hastings Phyllis Ponton Hastings Beulah Inman Glenwood and Jessie who died in infancy. He was active as a deacon in the Christian church and a soil conservation pioneer and Glenwood council member. His wife died November 5 1953. He leaves seven children and one brother Rans Wheeler of Hastings and other relatives.
An obituary fragment lists a sister Verda Wheeler of Glenwood, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren among the surviving relatives.
The Wheeler family thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy and thoughtfulness during bereavement. A special thank you goes to Nishna Cottage for kindness shown to their father W. W. Wheeler.
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