WETZLER, Edwin P.

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.

Posted by Judy Wight Branson on July 23, 2018

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