Editing Wheeler, Marjorie Faye Nickel (1959-2001)

"Mennonite Brethren Herald" obituary: 2001 May 25 p. 29

Birth date: 1959 May 5

text of obituary:

<center><h3>MARJORIE FAYE>/h3></center>

Marjorie Faye Wheeler
of Waseca, Minn.,
passed away Apr. 17.
She was born May 5,
1959 to David and
Rosie Nickel in Winnipeg, the youngest of
4 children. When she
was 7, the family
moved to Abbotsford,
B.C. She was active in
South Abbotsford MB
Church. From an early
age, she wanted to be a
missionary. She completed high school at
Mennonite Educational
Institute, then studied 2
years at Winkler (Man.)
Bible Institute. She
studied to become a
receptionist and legal
secretary and worked
for an accounting firm
for 2 years. She also
was a secretary at Trinity Western University.
She then studied to become achild care worker at Fraser Valley College, Abbotsford. She
served on several shortterm mission trips and
attended a SEND language training school
for Spanish in Costa
Rica, where she met
Michael Wayne Wheeler. They married June 2,
1990 in Abbotsford.
They served 1 0 years
with SIM International
at the Bible seminary in
Cochabamba, Bolivia.
She often said that she
could never have
planned a ministry
more suited to who she
was than what God
had given her. Her
mother died in 1996 of
cancer. Marjorie was diagnosed with breast
cancer in 1997. She
and her family returned
to the US for treatment.
She was a member of
the Evangelical Free
Church in Waseca.
Cancer returned last
year. Predeceased by a
child in infancy and her
mother, she is mourned
by Michael; daughter
Amanda Rose; her father; her stepmother
Irene; 1 brother and 2
sisters. The funeral was
in the Evangelical Free
Church, Waseca, with
Daniel Van Loon and
Howard Lundeen ministering.

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