Nelson Miles Wheatley 1897-1981

WHEATLEY, SABO, PRIGGY, HOUTS, BROWN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 3/16/2012 at 22:08:58

Nelson Wheatley
Estherville – Services for Nelson Mills [Miles] Wheatley, 84, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Henry and Olson Funeral Chapel with Pastor Norman Omodt of Estherville Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. He died Friday [October 9, 1981] at Holy Family Hospital.

Friends may call until time of services at the funeral home.

He was born April 12, 1897 at Blue Island, Ill., the son of George and Adeline (Priggy) Wheatley. He was educated in rural Emmet County Schools. On Oct. 6, 1917 he was married to Bernette Sabo at Estherville. He came to Emmet County at the age of 10 and has lived and farmed here until retiring in 1964. He was a resident of Rosewood Manor for 3 years.

He is survived by one son, Robert M. Wheatley of rural Estherville and one daughter, Mrs. Joseph (Vernice) Houts, Sherburn, Minn., three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Ethel Brown, a resident of Rosewood Manor.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, two sisters and one infant brother. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 12, 1981)