Anne Loveland Wheeler

Anne Loveland Wheeler, a retired LSU history professor, died on April 2, 2023. She was born December 23, 1938, in Jamaica, New York, the daughter of Edith Ellen and John Wayne Loveland. She attended public schools in San Diego, California, and Port Washington, New York, and earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. She began her academic career in 1964 as an instructor in U.S. history at LSU. She was subsequently promoted to assistant, then associate and full professor, and in 1993 was named the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History. She also served as chairperson of the LSU History Department, 1993-1996. In 1998, she received the 1997 Distinguished Research Master award from LSU. The cultural, intellectual and social history of the United States constituted her main field of teaching, research and publication. She wrote several books on evangelical religion in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She and her husband Otis B. Wheeler collaborated on a book that treated the origins and development of the architecture of evangelical megachurches. She wrote the text and Otis took and printed (in his darkroom, before he mastered digital photography) the many full-page, color photographs that illustrated it. Anne also published essays and two books on various aspects of religion, morality and ideology in the United States military. These include American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military, 1942-1993 and, more recently, Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945.

Anne was preceded in death by her parents, Edith Ellen and John Wayne Loveland, and her husband, Otis B. Wheeler. She is survived by two step-children, Ann C. Wheeler, and Ross C. Wheeler, and three grandchildren, Allana C. Wheeler, Grace C. Wheeler, and Alexander C. Wheeler.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate a donation to The Hospice of Baton Rouge, where both Otis and Anne were, for many years, volunteers.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., Baton Rouge.

To view and sign the online guestbook, please visit www.rabenhorst.com.