The Miller (Missouri) Press, Thursday, March 18, 1976: 'John Franklin Whisler, 66, of Joplin, and 1104 Oak St., Carthage, died Monday, March 15 in a Lee's Summitt, Mo., hospital after apparently suffering a heart attack. He was in Kansas City for evangelistic services.
A native of Sarcoxie where he was born Jan. 3, 1910, Mr. Whisler married Miller community native Thelma Abbott, April 26, 1936. She survives.
A member of the First Church of the Nazarene, in Carthage for 10 years he was an evangelistic singer, commissioned by the Church of the Nazarene. The past 4 1/2 years he had been the rehabilitation teacher and social worker for the Joplin Association for the Blind.
Other survivors include a brother, Phil N. Whisler Sr., Kansas City, Kan,; four sisters, Gale Pate, Aurora, Mrs. Lucille Hopkins, Independence, Mo., Mrs. Katherine Pinet, Forsyth, Mo., and Mrs. J. D. Montgomery, Carthage.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Church of the Nazarene, Carthage. Burial will follow in Goss Cemetery south of Phelps.'
A native of Sarcoxie where he was born Jan. 3, 1910, Mr. Whisler married Miller community native Thelma Abbott, April 26, 1936. She survives.
A member of the First Church of the Nazarene, in Carthage for 10 years he was an evangelistic singer, commissioned by the Church of the Nazarene. The past 4 1/2 years he had been the rehabilitation teacher and social worker for the Joplin Association for the Blind.
Other survivors include a brother, Phil N. Whisler Sr., Kansas City, Kan,; four sisters, Gale Pate, Aurora, Mrs. Lucille Hopkins, Independence, Mo., Mrs. Katherine Pinet, Forsyth, Mo., and Mrs. J. D. Montgomery, Carthage.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Church of the Nazarene, Carthage. Burial will follow in Goss Cemetery south of Phelps.'
The Miller (Missouri) Press, Thursday, March 18, 1976: 'John Franklin Whisler, 66, of Joplin, and 1104 Oak St., Carthage, died Monday, March 15 in a Lee's Summitt, Mo., hospital after apparently suffering a heart attack. He was in Kansas City for evangelistic services.
A native of Sarcoxie where he was born Jan. 3, 1910, Mr. Whisler married Miller community native Thelma Abbott, April 26, 1936. She survives.
A member of the First Church of the Nazarene, in Carthage for 10 years he was an evangelistic singer, commissioned by the Church of the Nazarene. The past 4 1/2 years he had been the rehabilitation teacher and social worker for the Joplin Association for the Blind.
Other survivors include a brother, Phil N. Whisler Sr., Kansas City, Kan,; four sisters, Gale Pate, Aurora, Mrs. Lucille Hopkins, Independence, Mo., Mrs. Katherine Pinet, Forsyth, Mo., and Mrs. J. D. Montgomery, Carthage.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Church of the Nazarene, Carthage. Burial will follow in Goss Cemetery south of Phelps.'
A native of Sarcoxie where he was born Jan. 3, 1910, Mr. Whisler married Miller community native Thelma Abbott, April 26, 1936. She survives.
A member of the First Church of the Nazarene, in Carthage for 10 years he was an evangelistic singer, commissioned by the Church of the Nazarene. The past 4 1/2 years he had been the rehabilitation teacher and social worker for the Joplin Association for the Blind.
Other survivors include a brother, Phil N. Whisler Sr., Kansas City, Kan,; four sisters, Gale Pate, Aurora, Mrs. Lucille Hopkins, Independence, Mo., Mrs. Katherine Pinet, Forsyth, Mo., and Mrs. J. D. Montgomery, Carthage.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Church of the Nazarene, Carthage. Burial will follow in Goss Cemetery south of Phelps.'
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