GARY WHEATON

MILL CREEK, Ill. -- Gary Wayne Wheaton, 43, of Mill Creek, died Thursday, April 10, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

He was born Sept. 17, 1953, in St. Louis, Mo., son of Lester "Peck" and Eula Dodson Wheaton. He married Kathy R. Garrett in Cape Girardeau on Dec. 25, 1976. He was self-employed as an auto body repairman and a member of the Jonesboro Masonic Lodge. He was of the Protestant faith.

Survivors include his wife and one daughter, Christie, both of the home; his mother, Eula Wheaton of Mill Creek; one sister, Gloria Benson of Imperial, Mo.; and several nieces and nephews.

Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at the Hileman & Parr Funeral Home in Jonesboro, Ill. Masonic rites will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday by the Jonesboro Masonic Lodge. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the funeral chapel, the Rev. Jimmy Wilson officiating. Interment will follow in the St. Johns Cemetery near Dongola.