Home Going February 28, 2019 at 3:00pm
Mollie Floranna Wheeler passed away peacefully at home on February 28, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 93. She was born on March 9, 1925 in Boonville, Missouri, and had been a resident Las Vegas for the past 29 years. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri, Class of ’44. For a short period of time, Mollie worked at the V.A, and retired after 10 years of service, but most of her adult life, she was a loving homemaker, a devoted and beloved wife, a supportive mother, a listening grandmother, a fun-loving great-grandmother, an adoring great-great grandmother and a friend who enjoyed taking care of her family.
Mollie was preceded by her daughter, Janetta M. Lacy; her great - granddaughter, Alyna R. Duckett; two sisters, Elenora Motley and Emma Jean Prather; and two brothers, Smith Fields, Jr. and James Dfredrick Fields.
Mollie leaves to cherish her memory her husband of 72 years, Louis B. Wheeler, Sr.; sister, Mary P. Martin; five children, Louis B. Wheeler, Jr. and wife Brenda Wheeler, Jacqueline R. Goldston and husband Merle Goldston, Joshlyn D. Duckett, Donald S. Wheeler, Jeresa J. Liddell and husband Reginald Liddell; 11 grandchildren, 13 great- grandchildren, 6 great- great grandchildren; and extended family and friends. Mollie smile and warm heart will be dearly missed by her family and close friends.
Services will be held at Palm Mortuary – South Jones, 1600 S. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, March 9th at 1:00pm. She will be laid to rest at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, Nevada on Monday, March 11, 2019 at 12:00pm.
