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DATE: TUESDAY, July 20, 1993                   TAG: 9307200538
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BEDFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

OBIT WHEELER, NELSON RANDOLPH

WHEELER, Nelson Randolph, 73, of 843 Randolph Street, Bedford, died Monday, July 19, 1993, in Bedford County Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. He was born in Bedford County January 2, 1920, a son of the late Edgar Owen Wheeler and Nora Brown Wheeler. He was a retired driver for Rubatex Corp., an Army veteran of World War II, a member of Liberty Masonic Lodge #95 A.F.&A.M., Bedford Royal Arch Chapter #60 and Bedford Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Ellen Scott Wheeler; a daughter and son-in-law, Carolyn Wheeler and Robert L. Beeman of Naruna; a brother, Marvin D. Wheeler of Vinton; two stepgrandchildren, Victoria Leigh Beeman and Robert Patrick Beeman. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, July 21, 1993, 11 a.m. at the Carder-Tharp Funeral Chapel with Dr. Ron R. Blankenship officiating. Burial will follow in Virginia Memorial Park with Masonic Graveside Rites. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Carder-Tharp Funeral Home. 


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