Funeral Here Monday
For Mrs. Post Wheeler
Funeral services for Mrs. Post Wheeler, of New York City, formerly Hanle Ermime Rives of this community. will held at the Methodist Church at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery.
The body is due to arrive in Guthrie Sunday afternoon, and will be taken to Keightley Funeral Home where it will remain until services Monday. According to information received here today. Mr. Wheeler and a cousin, Harry Wheeler, will be here to attend the services and are expected to arrive Saturday night.
Pallbearers will be Jesse Harlon, Cooper Harton. William Hancock. Tommy Hancock, Wallace Henderson, and George Rogers of Mayfield.
Mrs. Wheeler was the daughter of the late Stephen Rives and Mary Ragsdale Rives of LaFayette. She was born on May 2, 1876. As a young girl she attended Buford College, which was at that time located in Clarksville.
She married Mr. Wheeler on Dec. 29, 1906, in Tokyo, Japan, where he was counselor of the United States Embassy. She wrote numbers of books, continuing to be known professionally by her maiden name. More than one was a best seller. She also wrote numbers of plays, several being produced by John Golden, one of the foremost producers of his day. Much of her life was spent abroad. and frequently she served as official hostess at the American Embassy in foreign capitals.
In the March issue of the nationally circulated Wilson Library Bulletin a full page is devoted to Mrs. Wheeler, in which a review is given of her many literary successes.
The story stated that in 1939 she was given an honorary Lit.D. degree and that she has received medals from Belgium, India and Japan.
Mrs. Wheeler had been seriously ill for some months before her death Wednesday night.
--Kentucky New Era, (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Friday, August 17, 1956. Pages 1 & 12
For Mrs. Post Wheeler
Funeral services for Mrs. Post Wheeler, of New York City, formerly Hanle Ermime Rives of this community. will held at the Methodist Church at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery.
The body is due to arrive in Guthrie Sunday afternoon, and will be taken to Keightley Funeral Home where it will remain until services Monday. According to information received here today. Mr. Wheeler and a cousin, Harry Wheeler, will be here to attend the services and are expected to arrive Saturday night.
Pallbearers will be Jesse Harlon, Cooper Harton. William Hancock. Tommy Hancock, Wallace Henderson, and George Rogers of Mayfield.
Mrs. Wheeler was the daughter of the late Stephen Rives and Mary Ragsdale Rives of LaFayette. She was born on May 2, 1876. As a young girl she attended Buford College, which was at that time located in Clarksville.
She married Mr. Wheeler on Dec. 29, 1906, in Tokyo, Japan, where he was counselor of the United States Embassy. She wrote numbers of books, continuing to be known professionally by her maiden name. More than one was a best seller. She also wrote numbers of plays, several being produced by John Golden, one of the foremost producers of his day. Much of her life was spent abroad. and frequently she served as official hostess at the American Embassy in foreign capitals.
In the March issue of the nationally circulated Wilson Library Bulletin a full page is devoted to Mrs. Wheeler, in which a review is given of her many literary successes.
The story stated that in 1939 she was given an honorary Lit.D. degree and that she has received medals from Belgium, India and Japan.
Mrs. Wheeler had been seriously ill for some months before her death Wednesday night.
--Kentucky New Era, (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Friday, August 17, 1956. Pages 1 & 12
Funeral Here Monday
For Mrs. Post Wheeler
Funeral services for Mrs. Post Wheeler, of New York City, formerly Hanle Ermime Rives of this community. will held at the Methodist Church at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery.
The body is due to arrive in Guthrie Sunday afternoon, and will be taken to Keightley Funeral Home where it will remain until services Monday. According to information received here today. Mr. Wheeler and a cousin, Harry Wheeler, will be here to attend the services and are expected to arrive Saturday night.
Pallbearers will be Jesse Harlon, Cooper Harton. William Hancock. Tommy Hancock, Wallace Henderson, and George Rogers of Mayfield.
Mrs. Wheeler was the daughter of the late Stephen Rives and Mary Ragsdale Rives of LaFayette. She was born on May 2, 1876. As a young girl she attended Buford College, which was at that time located in Clarksville.
She married Mr. Wheeler on Dec. 29, 1906, in Tokyo, Japan, where he was counselor of the United States Embassy. She wrote numbers of books, continuing to be known professionally by her maiden name. More than one was a best seller. She also wrote numbers of plays, several being produced by John Golden, one of the foremost producers of his day. Much of her life was spent abroad. and frequently she served as official hostess at the American Embassy in foreign capitals.
In the March issue of the nationally circulated Wilson Library Bulletin a full page is devoted to Mrs. Wheeler, in which a review is given of her many literary successes.
The story stated that in 1939 she was given an honorary Lit.D. degree and that she has received medals from Belgium, India and Japan.
Mrs. Wheeler had been seriously ill for some months before her death Wednesday night.
--Kentucky New Era, (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Friday, August 17, 1956. Pages 1 & 12
For Mrs. Post Wheeler
Funeral services for Mrs. Post Wheeler, of New York City, formerly Hanle Ermime Rives of this community. will held at the Methodist Church at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Interment will be at Riverside Cemetery.
The body is due to arrive in Guthrie Sunday afternoon, and will be taken to Keightley Funeral Home where it will remain until services Monday. According to information received here today. Mr. Wheeler and a cousin, Harry Wheeler, will be here to attend the services and are expected to arrive Saturday night.
Pallbearers will be Jesse Harlon, Cooper Harton. William Hancock. Tommy Hancock, Wallace Henderson, and George Rogers of Mayfield.
Mrs. Wheeler was the daughter of the late Stephen Rives and Mary Ragsdale Rives of LaFayette. She was born on May 2, 1876. As a young girl she attended Buford College, which was at that time located in Clarksville.
She married Mr. Wheeler on Dec. 29, 1906, in Tokyo, Japan, where he was counselor of the United States Embassy. She wrote numbers of books, continuing to be known professionally by her maiden name. More than one was a best seller. She also wrote numbers of plays, several being produced by John Golden, one of the foremost producers of his day. Much of her life was spent abroad. and frequently she served as official hostess at the American Embassy in foreign capitals.
In the March issue of the nationally circulated Wilson Library Bulletin a full page is devoted to Mrs. Wheeler, in which a review is given of her many literary successes.
The story stated that in 1939 she was given an honorary Lit.D. degree and that she has received medals from Belgium, India and Japan.
Mrs. Wheeler had been seriously ill for some months before her death Wednesday night.
--Kentucky New Era, (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Friday, August 17, 1956. Pages 1 & 12
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