St. Clair County Obits

PAULA ALICE METCALFE WHEELER

Clinton Daily Democrat
7 December 2004
Paula Alice Metcalfe was born April 22, 1927, in Dunlap, Kansas, to Albert Leroy and Ruth Rosa Metcalfe, and died December 2, 2004. She married Orland Washington Wheeler in Kansas City, Kansas, November 15, 1946. She was baptized into the Christian Church in Warsaw March 15, 1955. She was active in the church, teaching Sunday School and serving in the kitchen and nursery. On April 7, 1968, she and her family began attending the Christian Church of Holden. After the family moved near Lowry City, they began attending Ohio Christian church. She was preceded in death by her father, Albert Leroy Metcalfe; her mother Ruth Rosa Metcalfe; two brothers, Lawrence Metcalfe and Charles Metcalfe; three sisters, Jessie Edwards, Darline Kirby and Gloria Rogers, and her husband, Orland Washington Wheeler. She is survived by her daughter Mary Ruth and her husband Ronald Lee Rayster of Kansas City; her son Larry Dean Wheeler and wife Cheryl Ann, Osceola; her daughter Alice Orlene and husband Larry William Walters of Lowry City; her brother Wilbur Metcalfe, Warsaw; sister Donna Erck of Lincoln; 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday, December 6, at Ohio Christian Church with Rev. Jim Knight officiating. Burial was in Shady Grove Cemetery, Racket.