Garry Blaine Wheaton

GARRY BLAINE WHEATON, 54, of Lavalette, W.Va., passed away Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Reger Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Spring Valley Memory Gardens, Huntington. He was born July 22, 1949, in Huntington, W.Va., a son of Opal Irene Kinder Wheaton of Barboursville and the late Dorsey Ivan Wheaton. He was a retired employee of Calgon Corporation. He was a U.S. Navy, Vietnam Era veteran. He was a member of the Spring Valley Presbyterian Church, and he was an Eagle Scout. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his mother-in-law, Edna Mae Black. Additional survivors include his wife, Beverly Black Wheaton; a stepson, Matthew Stephen Duncan of Huntington; a stepdaughter, Amy Marie Duncan of Huntington; a granddaughter, Payton Mae Duncan; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Gregory D. Wheaton and his wife Connie M. Wheaton of Huntington, and Garry?s twin brother, Larry Dwayne Wheaton and his wife B.J. of Dallas, Texas; his father-in-law, Paul C. Black of Huntington; and several nieces and nephews, including his nephew Joshua Wheaton, his wife Jessica and their two sons, Jarred Wheaton and Dorsey Ivan Wheaton II, and his nieces, Jennifer Jo Wheaton and Amy Elizabeth Owen and her son, Jonah Meek. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Reger Funeral Home. American Legion Post 93 of Kenova will conduct military graveside rites.