Stacey Shay Yeager Wheeler, 46, of Yardelle, died Friday, Dec. 6 (2019). Visitation will be Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 5-8 p.m., at Coffman Funeral Home in Harrison. Funeral is Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m., at the North Arkansas College gymnasium with burial to follow at the Western Grove Cemetery. Pastor Andrew Campbell will officiate.
Stacey Shay Yeager Wheeler, 46, of Yardelle, died Friday, Dec. 6 (2019). Visitation will be Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 5-8 p.m., at Coffman Funeral Home in Harrison. Funeral is Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m., at the North Arkansas College gymnasium with burial to follow at the Western Grove Cemetery. Pastor Andrew Campbell will officiate.
Stacey was born in Harrison, on Dec. 16, 1972, to Terry and LeBeta Hankins Yeager and grew up in Harrison She married Glenn Wheeler on Aug. 3, 1991. She was a member of the Newton County Baptist Church, the Newton County Baptist Church Ladies Share and Prayer Group, a volunteer photographer for Western Grove basketball games, volunteered at the Western Grove Homecoming Reunion, hosted monthly musical get togethers at Rock Haven Bible Camp, was the secretary for the Arkansas Sheriff’s Wives Association, was a volunteer and avid supporter of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association - where she was the 2017 recipient of the Chuck Buckley Special Friends Award, a First Responder and former EMT.
She is preceded in death by her grandparents, Andy and Louise Yeager and Ross and Virgie Hankins and her mother and father-in-Law, Wib and Eva Wheeler.
She is survived by her husband, Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler, of the home; a daughter, Beth Wheeler, of Conway; a son, Zane Wheeler, of the home; a sister, Stephny Yeager Martin, of Harrison and her parents, Terry and LeBeta Yeager, of Harrison.
Pallbearers will be Zane Wheeler, Beth Wheeler, Alex Mount, Kim Wheeler, Randy Wheeler, Keith Wheeler, Jared Wheeler, Billy Bell, Terran Villines, Rodger Martin, Kevin Yoder, Zac Bass, and Tom Bell, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers are Greg Harris, Allen Armer, the Western Grove Boys Basketball Teams, the men of Newton County Baptist Church, men of SEOPA and Newton County Sheriff’s Office Employees.
Memorials can be made to the Stacey Wheeler memorial at Rock Haven Ministries, P.O. Box 40 Hasty, AR 72640. Those funds will go to the Eva Wheeler Memorial Scholarship funds that helps send kids to Bible Camp.
