The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-24
MISS FRANCIS '. WHEELER.
News of Her Death Announced from
 Dwight Place Church Pulpit Yester-

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 The death of Miss Frances l. Wheeler, announced from the pulpit of the Dwight 1 Place church at the service last night, will 1 be received with keen grief by large cir l cle of friends. For over year her health had been considerably impaired but only | those who stood nearest to her have known the extent of nervous prostration to which she has been subjected for the last five or six months. The care of her affairs was en- trusted to one or two of her friends in the Dwight Place church and when relief did not come from the first sanitarium to
 which she was taken she went willingly
 at their suggestion to another bent on se-
 curing full recovery and ardently hoping
 for cure which would permit the larger
 work to which she had been called and for
 which she had remarkable qualifications. LThe second sanitarium was near Bristol k.
 l., and there under skiful attendance, of
 which occasional letters and visits from her
 family gave abundant evidence 1t was
 hoped the nervous system could be built up
 and health restored. The case, however
 proved to be q very stubborn one. Nerves
 and brain were at times too near collapse
 to give her friends great encouragement. Last Monday they were informed by the
 physicians that she had disappeared from
 tions where 1t might be possible that she
 had wandered and after an anxious week telegram announced that her body was
 found Sunday morning in the water pre- sumably not far from the sanitarum.
 Her uncle, Dr. Shelton, of shelton, has gone to Bristol to take charge of the body and the funeral services will be at his home in Shelton at an hour to be later an nouncedd
 Miss Wheeler leaves widowed mother, whose life was bound up in her and whose home has been recently at her cottage at Short Beach; and a brother, the Rev. w. C. Wheeler of Newton KauSoS and lotnlV | called to Congregational church In Kan sas City.
 There were few women as gifted as Miss Wheeler in the line of Bible school work. Highly educated herself and as q regular teacher holding positions in Webster and | Winchester public schools and Miss Cat lin's private. school this city, she had by | q consecrated heart and sympathetic spirit q special call to awaken the Christ life in all who came under her care. This was known by many for long time and some School association as superintendent of the primary work at large salary. Here 1t was that her health first gave way. But after year or two her ambition would not allow rest and she was teaching in private schools in the city, leading the Primary lnon and superintendent of the primary department of the Dwight Place Bible chool. Feeling that the demands in these gifts were needed wholly in the church. the Dwight Place people called her to the sala- jed office of special Bible school worker Her work was to begin last September, but he summer vacation did not bring rest and rom that time on the school had waited her 'eturn and willing hands and hearts have lever been wanting to hasten it.
 Only the mothers of the children under | Ter care can know how much she did for , cores and hundreds of them and with heir tears of sorrow at her death will l ome the work of glad thanksgiving for her l fife.
 At a later date some memorial service will probably be held at the church, all of whose members mention her with esteem ( nd admiration, and which in her death uffers most serious loss.