Della Pluma (Gilbert) Knight Wheeler (1972)

ARBY, BOOKOUT, DECAMP, FISHER, FLECHER, GILBERT, GRAY, HAYES, KNIGHT, LYST, ROSS, WHEELER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:32

The Stuart Herald
Stuart, Iowa
Thursday, February 10, 1972
Page 7, Column 5

Della Pluma Wheeler was born January 26, 1897, to James Truman and Ossie Gilbert in Madison County, Iowa. She passed away January 26, 1972 in Polson, Montana at the age of 75 years.

She was preceded in death by Olvier Albert Knight, and one daughter, Della Dee Knight, age 18 months, and three sisters, Emma Lyst of Stuart, Iowa, Lorna Bookout of North Platte, Nebraska and May Gray of Bedford, Iowa.

Della lived in Guthrie County until 1948. She then moved to Montana where she married Alvie Wheeler who also preceded her in death.

Survivors include 5 sons: Carl Knight of Stuart; Jim Knight of Polson, Montana; Omer Arby of Corvallis, Montana; Ferry Knight of Auburn, Washington and Jack Knight of Seattle, Washington; three daughters, Lillie Ossa Fisher of Grapevine, Texas, Rebecca Orilda De Camp of Redfield, Iowa and Florence June Hayes of Ronan, Montana, one brother Omer Gilbert of Menlo, two sisters Chloe Ross of Spring Hill, Kansas, Orilda Flecher of Chariton; twenty-seven grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held January 29, 1972 from the Polson, Montana Funeral Home. Interment was in the Polson Cemetery.

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