Obituary

Funeral Services to Be Held at St. James Church--Dies at Home Early Today

  Mrs. Susie E. Wheelan, wife of Thomas Wheelan, died at two o'clock this morning at her home, 421 West Main Street. She had been in failing health for the last six months and had been bedfast two weeks.
  Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9:30 at St. James Catholic church, followed by burial in Elm Grove cemetery. The rosary will be recited at Sherman's funeral home Friday evening at 8:45. It is announced that the casket will not be opened at the church.
  Mrs. Wheelan, who had been a resident of this community since 1908, was born in New York, Oct. 4, 1863, the only child of Neil and Bridget Duffy. From New York she came to Keithsburg, Ill., where she spent about 30 years. At that place she was married to Thomas Wheelan on Jan 27, 1886.
  After their removal to Washington county their home was on a farm six miles north of Washington until 1919, when they removed to their home in Washington.
  She was a member of St. James church and of the Altar and Rosary society of the local parish, and a charter member of the Daughters of Isabella. Her interests were largely centered in her home and family and in her church.
  Surviving her are her husband and five children: Mrs. M. H. Mack of Reynolds, Ill., John H. Wheelan of Washington, Frank N. of Buffalo, N.Y., Clarence J. of Cedar Rapids, and Mrs. Herbert Shockley of Dayton Ohio. There are 19 grandchildren and ...
(Washington, Iowa, April 1, 1943)