This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Merritt Tooke Wheeler Moon Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SRB.2ACE/12060 Message Board Post: Obituary from the Jamestown, New York "Post Journal" Newspaper, August 30, 2005: "Barbara Merritt Wheeler died Thursday, (Aug. 18, 2005) in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was born in Sheridan, NY in Dec. 31, 1906, she was the daughter of the late James Tooke Merritt and Luella Madge Moon. After Mrs. Merritt's death in May 1907 she was raised by her aunt, Bessie A. Merritt, in the home of her grandparents, Nelson G. and Alice T. Merritt. She graduated from Dunkirk High School and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and later spent two years as secretary to the dean of Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va. She earned a master's from Cornell University in 1932. Further work qualified her to teach in secondary schools in Forestville and Arcade, N.Y., while being active in 4-H leadership and becoming a life member of the New York Patrons of Husbandry (Grange). From 1940 to 1942 she taught at Penn Hall Junior College, Chambersburg, Pa. Her marriage to Grant A. Wheeler of Kalamazoo on Sept. 4, 1942, in the Methodist Church in Sheridan, N.Y., brought her to Kalamazoo where she was active in AAUW and YWCA for several years and a member of Chapter Q, International PEO Sisterhood from June 1947 until her death. Family, church, and friends were dear to her and for years she was active in the First Congregational Church, to which she transferred from the Sheridan Methodist Church in December 1942. In Kalamazoo she taught in the Kalamazoo Public Schools and part time at WMU. Surviving are four sons, Grant of Great Cacapon, W.Va., Frank of Traverse City, Mich., Kevin Comstock of Park, Mich., and James of Bloomingdale, Mich., five grandchildren, and three sisters, Connie Holt, Lyndell Kintner, and Mary Lois Peters. She was predeceased by her husband, her father, her stepmother, Gladys Maclean; brothers Nelson H. Merritt and James Manley Merritt; sisters Rachel A. and Dorothy M. Gardner." Burial was in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.