This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whiteley, Eiland Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8463 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 10 Mar 2005 Whiteley Lona Marie Whiteley, 80, of Killeen died Tuesday, March 1, 2005, in Temple. Funeral services were held 11 a.m. Thursday March 3, 2005, at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Dr. Joe Rich officiating. Burial followed in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rockdale. Ms. Whiteley, a 38-year resident of Killeen, was born March 3, 1924, in Rockdale to Calvin and Freda Eiland. She was a graduate of Rockdale High School and a member of Memorial Baptist Church, and worked with Killeen-Cove-Hood Special Olympics. She was an avid gardener, homemaker and worked in consolidated aircraft in Fort Worth as a metallurgist during the 1940s. She was preceded in death by her husband Edward A. Whiteley in 1991; sisters, Thelmer Staffelbach and Margaret Lee Gifford; and her parents, Calvin and Freda Eiland. Survivors include sons Michael A. Whiteley of Killeen, Edward T. Whiteley of Atlanta, GA, Dick W. Whiteley of Killeen and Patrick L. Whiteley of Cedar Hill; brothers, Elmer Eiland of Ennis and Elbert Eiland of Taylor; sisters, Euteva Talley of Rockdale and Lois Wilkins of Gause; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.