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Submitted: 11/11/21 • Approved: 11/11/21 • Last Updated: 11/14/21 • R468250-G0-S3
1942-2015
Shared stone with Barbra
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER — Gerald Francis Koelzer, 73, of Wheeler died Wednesday, July 1, 2015, in Amarillo.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church in Wheeler. Inurnment will follow in Wheeler Cemetery. Arrangements are by Peppers Family Funeral Home in Wheeler.
Mr. Koelzer was born April 14, 1942, in Herford to the late Mr. Bernard Nicholas Koelzer and Mrs. Elizabeth Jesko Koelzer. He graduated high school in Lazbuddie. On May 26, 1977, he married Barbra Allison Koelzer in Dalhart. Mr. Koelzer was the founder of Arrow Water Well Inc. He retired in 2008. Jerry was a member of the Wheeler Lions Club and attended the First United Methodist Church of Wheeler. He loved working with wood and metal and was a brick layer. Jerry was a jack-of-all-trades and a master of most.
Mr. Koelzer was proceeded in death by his parents; and two brothers, B.J. Koelzer and Dan Koelzer.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Vincent Koelzer and wife Amy, Greg Koelzer and Shane Guest and wife Lisa, all of Wheeler; three daughters, Valencia Meier and husband Peter of Friona; Sherree Tevebaugh and husband Jess of Bowley, Okla., and Tracy Coots of Robstown; 11 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two brothers, David Koelzer of Satana, Kan., and James Koelzer of Dalhart; and three sisters, Dorothy Blankenship of Amarillo, Evelyn Blankenship of Herford, and Judy Koelzer of Friona.
The family suggests memorials be to First United Methodist Church, 704 Main Street, Wheeler, TX, 79096.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, July 5, 2015)
Contributed on 11/11/21
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