Mary Steen

Mary Weber Wheeler Steen, 89, passed away on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 in Dallas, TX. Graveside services will be 3:00p.m., Saturday, October 22, 2011, at Elmwood Memorial Park under the direction of Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 5701 Hwy 277 South. Visitation will be from 6 to 8p.m. Friday evening at the funeral home.

Born June 6, 1922 to Charles F. Weber and Birdie Sager Weber in DeLeon, Comanche County, Texas, Mary attended schools in Moran in Shackelford County, Texas, and was graduated from Moran High School in 1940 and from Tarleton State College at Stephenville in 1942. She married her husband of 44 years, Earl H. Wheeler, a survivor of the Bataan Death March and Japanese POW camps during World War II, and he died in 1993. In 2003 Mary married a former high school classmate, Roy L. Steen, and moved to Dallas.

She worked in the Moran National Bank for 8 years before her marriage to Earl Wheeler and moving to Abilene. She continued her banking career in Abilene, working for the Farmers and Merchants Bank and First National Bank for 37 years, retiring in 1987 after a total of 45 years in banking.

Preceding her in death was her parents, two brothers, R. E. Weber of Colorado City and Howard M. Weber of Abilene.

Survivors include her husband, Roy L. Steen of Dallas; one nephew and his family, Charles E. Weber of Arlington, Texas and by three nieces and their families, Mary Lyn Weber Owen of Kermit, Texas; Dana Gail Weber Kinney of Odessa, Texas; and Cynthia Weber Rhodes of Arlington, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, Mary's favorite charities were Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army.