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The Downey Eagle 
Friday, December 24, 1999
Vol. 7 No. 44


Friends, family remember Mary E. Wheeler at 75
DOWNEY-Services were held Friday, Dec. 17, at the Rose Hills Funeral Home in Whittier for Mary E. 
Wheeler, a 48 year Downey resident. 
She was 75, born July 22, 1924, in Devils Lake, North Dakota, and died Dec. 14 in Downey Regional 
Medical Center. She had recently moved from Downey to Devils Lake, North Dakota. 
Raised on a farm in Devils Lake, she excelled at school and following graduation moved to Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, where she worked at Arthur Daniels as a secretary. She then moved to Southern California 
and worked at Lockheed in Burbank. During World War II she joined the Navy, serving in Stumpneck, 
Maryland and Washington, D.C. 
Following her tenure in the Navy she returned to Southern California and enrolled in Fullerton Junior 
College, where she met husband, Hugh. They were married and moved to Berkeley where he completed 
an engineering degree. After his graduation they returned to Southern California. They were involved 
with St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Lynwood for 26 years, Hugh as a deacon and usher, and Mary in 
women's ministry. 
Survivors include her husband, Hugh O. Wheeler of Downey; three daughters, Marilyn Davison Vega of 
Westminster, Patricia Wheeler of San Diego, Beverly Wheeler of West Covina; a sister, Isabel Jordan of 
Phoenix, Arizona; and brothers James Jordan of Simi Valley and Oliver Jordan of Phoenix. 
Burial followed at Rose Hills Memorial Park.