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- WILLIAM F. WHEELER, FORMER TROOPER, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - May 30, 1991Browse Issues
William F. Wheeler, 84, of 7343 Port St., died Tuesday at his home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. John the Evangelist Church. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, Oswego.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with the Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Contributions may be made to the Northern Oswego County Ambulance fund.
Surviving are his wife, Kathleen "Kay" Wheeler; four sons, William J., Osceola, James H., Pulaski, John E., Lacona, and Paul J., Orwell; four daughters, Jane Armstrong, North Port, Fla., Marcia Coomber, Baltimore, Md., and Colleen Ingalls and Mary Brown, both of Parish; 38 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Born Aug. 11, 1906, in Syracuse, son of James and Anna Schauers Wheeler, he married Kathleen Crouch Oct. 2, 1939, in St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton, Pa. The couple had lived in Pulaski since 1945.
Mr. Wheeler retired in 1948 after 21 years as a New York State Trooper. He was a member of Troop D in Oneida for 10 years, and was a member of the rough-riding team for seven years.
He also retired in 1968 as an operating engineer and was a member of Local 545, International Union of Operating Engineers. He also owned and operated The Old Trooper Candy Store in Pulaski for several years, and served many years as a Pulaski police justice.
Mr. Wheeler was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church. He was a ham radio operator with the call letters W2RQK for 60 years.
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1906 - 1991 (84 years)
d. 10 Aug 1920 (Age 51 years)