Alonzo M. Wheeler

Memorial services for Alonzo M. Wheeler, 74, Lawrence, will be at 5 p.m. Saturday at Unitarian Fellowship in Lawrence.

Mr. Wheeler died Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

He was born Feb. 26, 1929, in Marseilles, Ill., the son of John and Mary (Mann) Wheeler.

Mr. Wheeler served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was maintenance and repair foreman for the Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Mo., until he retired in 1988.

He married Janet Elizabeth McAdam on Jan. 26, 1948, in Kentucky. She died earlier.

Survivors include three daughters, Carol Wheeler and Beth Chao, both of Lawrence, and Susan Infelt, Waverly, Iowa; a son, Tom, Joplin, Mo.; two brothers; a sister; and two granddaughters.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Wheeler.