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"Mennonite Brethren Herald" obituary: 2001 May 25 p. 29
Birth date: 1959 May 5
text of obituary:
MARJORIE FAYE WHEELER
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 a child care worker at Fraser Valley College, Abbotsford. She served on several short-term 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 10 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.