Edwin P. Wetzler |
| Posted 2018-07-23 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Monday, January 10, 1966, page 35, columns 2 & 3 EDWIN P. WETZLER, BUCKEYE, DIES AT 87 BUCKEYE -- Edwin P. Wetzler, 87, who grew the first commercial vegetables in the Buckeye area, died yesterday in a Phoenix nursing home. Mr. Wetzler was a native of Fort Collins, Colorado and came to Phoenix in 1894. After serving during the Spanish-American War, he opened a grocery store in Arlington, near here and later opened a dairy here. Survivors include three sons, Richard of Globe; Arthur of Chandler and James of Lynwood, California; five daughters, Mrs. Rose Leister and Mrs. Edna Ellis of Phoenix; Mrs. Margaret Ritter of Cottage Grove, Oregon; Mrs. Betty Locke of Portland, Oregon and Mrs. Annabelle Pierce of Buckeye. There are 16 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Buckeye First Baptist Church. The Rev. Roy McGuffy will officiate and burial will be in Louis B. Hazelton Memorial Park. Friends may call at the Buckeye Funeral Home between 7 and 9 p.m. tomorrow. |
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