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Submitted: 1/9/22 • Approved: 1/9/22 • Last Updated: 1/12/22 • R480310-G480310-S3
John Max
August 24, 1912-May 15, 1991
Ruth Dill
March 17, 1918-September 14, 2011
Please see Herman Manning Wiley Family Marker
*Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Ruth
WHEELER — Ruth Dill Wiley, 93, died Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, in Wheeler.
Services will be at 10 a.m. today in First United Methodist Church with Rev. Matthew Gary officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Peppers Family Funeral Home in Wheele.
Ruth Wiley was born March 17, 1918, in Comanche, Okla., to John Thomas Dill and Lema Cassity Dill. She graduated from Wheeler High School and also received a bachelor's degree in education from West Texas State College in Canyon. She married Max Wiley Oct. 23, 1940, at Wheeler. He preceded her in death on May 15, 1991. Mrs. Wiley retired from teaching in 1985. She received the Pioneer Award in 2002. Her credo was "Treat others as you would like to be treated." She was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Ruth Wiley is preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and four sisters.
Survivors include a son, John Thomas Wiley of Wheeler; two daughters, Elizabeth Boring of Wheeler and Nancy Hampton and husband Steve of Wheeler; three grandchildren, Shane Boring and wife Dedee of Midland, Wade Hampton and wife Darian of Fritch and Julie Hernandez and husband Phillip of Las Cruces, N.M.; and five great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 89, Wheeler, TX 79096.
Sign the online guest book at www.peppersfuneralhome.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 16, 2011.
Contributed on 1/9/22
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