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State Gazette 17 Aug 1939 PNEUMONIA FATAL TO TOM WHEELER Member of The Dyer County Court Dies At His Home In Finley Friday Esquire Tom G. Wheeler, member of the Dyer County Court and prominent Dyer county citizen and farmer, died at his home in Finley at 9:20 o'clock Friday morning. He was 79. Esquire Wheeler had been ill for several weeks, suffering first an attack of pneumonia from which he failed to recover. A native of Tennessee, as were his parents before him, Mr. Wheeler had spent most of his life in the Finley and Richwoods communities. He has served as a member of the county court from the eleventh district for almost a score of years, always taking an active interest in community and political affairs. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Donie Wheeler; three daughters, Mrs. Ollie Ray of Marmaduke, Ark., Mrs. Nora Davidson of Finley, and Mrs. Maud Gruggett, also of Finley, two sons, George Wheeler of Finley and Tommy Wheeler of Henning. Funeral services were held at the residence in Finley at two o'clock Saturday afternoon with Rev. R. E. McNatt, Dyersburg Pentecostal minister, officiating. Burial was in Pleasant Hill cemetery at Finley. J. W. Curry and Son of Dyersburg had charge of the funeral arrangements. |