Gloria Lavada Wheeler

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Gloria Lavada Wheeler, 78, 160 Dewey Road, Eldorado, died Saturday, April 25, 2009, at Ferrell Hospital, Eldorado.

Graveside services will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at Wolf Creek Cemetery with the Rev. Tom Flewellen officiating. There will be no visitation; those attending should go directly to the cemetery. Arrangements are in the charge of Watson Funeral Home, Eldorado.

She was born Feb. 13, 1931, in West Frankfort to Audie B. and Violet Marie (Farley) Koker.

She was a homemaker and member of Miracle Temple.

She is survived by two daughters, Norma Stoneham of Eldorado and Audiene Stoneham of Fulton, Ky.; two brothers, Roger Koker of Eldorado and Thomas Koker of Dukedom, Tenn.; a sister, Barbara N. Bertram of Carmi; several nieces and nephews; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.