Longtime Carlyle coach has died
BY NORM SANDERS
News-Democrat
Longtime Carlyle High football and baseball coach Gary Wheeler died Thursday after battling cancer for several months. Wheeler was 60 and coached Carlyle to the 1981 Class A state baseball championship and the 1988 Class 2A state football championship.
Wheeler is survived by his wife, Shirley, and two sons, Brian Wheeler and Andrew Wheeler. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Sunday at the Frerker Funeral Home in Carlyle and 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Frank and Bright Funeral Home in Wheeler's hometown of Flora. Funeral service is 11 a.m. Monday with burial at Elmwood Cemetery in Flora.
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