Marlene Esther (Haller) Wheatley
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Marlene Esther (Haller) Wheatley passed away on January 2, 2012 at Lakeview Village Care Center in Lenexa, Kansas. She was born in Decatur, Illinois on October 17, 1934 to George and Edna Bessie (Hendricks) Haller.
Life in post-depression, pre-WWII, America could be challenging at times for a traveling salesman and his wife.
Her father preceded her in death in 1985, and her mother in 1994. Her eldest brother preceded her in death, in 1975.
In 1966 she met the love of her life, Dr. Richard Wheatley, who brought six children into the union, Richard passed away in 2002.
She spent her early career days as a stewardess for Ozark Airlines for a couple of years and as an executive secretary for 6 years with Continental Can Company. Semi-retirement included 8 years as a volunteer at Research Belton Hospital and 12 years as a secretary for the Lord of love Lutheran Church in Belton. She was a member of The Assembly of God Church in Raymore, MO.
Her hobbies included training and showing some of her beloved dogs with niece Dianne Byrns in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In later years playing bunko and mahjong with friends, doing water aerobics, pontooning on Longview Lake, and walking daily with her best buddy of 13 years, Maggie Sugar Dear.
She is survived by brother Dr. Charles Haller, his wife Nancy, and their daughter Sabrina, sister Barbara Lee and her children Jeane Stroh, Dianne Byrnes and her husband Martin and their children Sarah Dunlap, and Stephanie Byrnes, David Lee and his children David Lee II, and Rebecca Lee, and Daniel Lee and his children Daniel Lee Jr., and Sierra Lee, 2 great-great- nieces, her 6 Step-children; Darleen Newberry, Dick Wheatley, Viola Haun, David Wheatley, and Honey Sue Lewis, and 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Marlene had wonderful family and friends, and even though a formal memorial is not planned, it was her wish that as you go into your gathered activities, join hands and say a prayer together. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. 2600 Network Blvd., Suite 300, Frisco, TX 75034.
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Marlene was a very reliable and wonderful
executive secretary for Century 21 Jim
Branson and Associates in the early 1990’s. She had a sweet personality and everyone loved her.
Love, Jim and Karen Branson
I will always remember Marlene as a wonderful aunt. She was a kind and giving person and will be missed by all of us.
I just wanna say that i came from a well mannered, ulcsape classy upbringing who taught me about manners, being polite and being classy, not being classy, not being well mannered and well polite shows you are an ignorant, lowclass savage. I was raised from good parents who taught me to keep my elbows off the table while eating dinner, i was raised to ask to be excused after done eating, my parents raised me to take off jackets from guest visitors who came into the house, they taught me to bow down to women who entered the room and above all my father taught my sister never to breastfeed in public. I happen to be a good ultra right wing conservative and the way i see public breastfeeding i see it as a filthy bad habit, public breastfeeding in restaurants is very impolite, public breastfeeding is rude and disrespectful, public breastfeeding makes a girl look discraceful, cheap and trashy due to her boobs being exposed. Any women who is ulcsape, polite classy, well mannered, has conservative values, does not public breastfeed, public breast. A women with manners and class goes somewhere PRIVATE to breastfeed her child like a bathroom, a car or her house where its not in the way of customers. I feel that we need a real strong good conservative for president in 2008 election like Newt Gingrich, i feel that Newt Gingrich would make breastfeeding in public illegal in all 50 states just about anywhere to make America back to it was before as a conservative country. When a weak minded liberal society condones indecent exposure such as breastfeeding in public it shows that society doesnt care anymore about being civilized, having values and showing polite manners to one a nother. If a society can condone public breastfeeding how long will it be till society condones urinating-defacating in public, our weak minded liberal society is breeding more ignorance in this country to make a newer generation even more ignorant to look at public breastfeeding as a social norm and to be condoned. Our liberal society is indoctrinating a newer generation the wrong way about being civilized, well when you breastfeed in public, it shows you are not civilized, it shows you are ignorant due to the fact that public breastfeeding shows you have no manners and class. For a women to breastfeed in public it shows how discraceful she is, it shows she has no respect for other people’s compforts, it shows she has no respect for herself as a women and no consideration for others. If a women wants to breastfeed in public, she better know what to expect like having onlookers stare at her, having onlookers give her dirtylooks, bringing shame and discrace on her and her family as well. Its time that a society needs to wakeup and smell the coffee and stop condoning this bad indecent behaviour such as public breastfeeding, because if society keeps seeing public breastfeeding as socially acceptable, we could endup losing a civilized society with no values