The funeral service for Mary Elizabeth Wehling, age 90, of Waukomis, will be at 2:00 P.M. Friday, August 14, 2009, at the Pioneer High School, with Rev. Ron Graber and Rev. Tom Donaldson officiating.  Visitation with the family will be Thursday evening from 6:00 to 7:30 PM at the Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.   The casket will be open from 12:30 to 2:00 PM before the service.  Burial will be in the Waukomis Cemetery.

    She was born to John Thomas and Katharine (Bregenzer) Edwards on November 26, 1918, on the family farm east of Waukomis, and died Wednesday, August 12, 2009, at her daughter’s home east of Waukomis. 

    Mary grew up in the Pioneer Community and graduated from  ioneer High School.  On July 19, 1939, she married Glen Wehling at the Garfield County Court House in Enid.  They made their home in Douglas, and then the Pioneer Community.   Mary was a charter member of Jr. Farmerette (OSU Extension) Club   She was a volunteer for Hospice Circle of Love, the first nurse’s aide, and then finally as a patient.  She was a school bus driver, caregiver to the elderly, and community babysitter referred to as “Grandma Mary”.   She was a member of Pleasant Valley Christian Union Church.

     Mary is survived by daughter Vera Mae Dierksen and husband Loren of Waukomis; two sons, Larry Dean Wehling and wife Patty of Oklahoma City;  Robert Gene Wehling of Douglas, and daughter-in-law, Joetta Wehling of Enid;  seven grandchildren, Cindy and Terry Brumfield, Tina Eck, Clay and Tina Wehling, Lora Dierksen, Dana and Mark Thrower, ChetWehling, and Jennifer Wehling; and five great-grandchildren, Brandi and Dillon Wehling, Danaka, Dayton and Blake Thrower.

     She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Glen, two brothers John T. and Donald Edwards; and infant granddaughter Rhonda Kay Dierksen.

     Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Hospice Circle of Love, Pioneer- Pleasant Vale Foundation, or Pleasant Valley Christian Union Church.