Former Blair resident L. Marie Wheatley, 88, of Wymore died May 18, 1998, at the Wymore Good Samaritan Center.

Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. today at the Blair Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Ordway of the Wymore United Presbyterian Church officiating. The body will lie in state at the Laughlin-Hoevet Funeral Home in Wymore until 10 a.m. today.

She was born June 7, 1909, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Thomas P. and Lauretta (Hansen) Jensen. She spent her childhood at Spencer and was a 1928 graduate of Spencer High School. She attended the Capitol School of Hair Styling in Omaha.

On May 19, 1943, she married F. Warren Wheatley in Omaha. They moved to Blair, and then to Wymore in 1978.

She was a member of the Wymore United Presbyterian Church and the Beacon Mariners of the church.

She enjoyed refinishing furniture.

Mr. Wheatley died on April 4, 1997.

She is survived by a sister, Anna Parcher of Blair; two brothers and sister-in-law, Neils Jensen of Wymore and Albert and Pat Jensen of Tacoma, Wash.; nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, F. Warren; three brothers and one sister.

Laughlin-Hoevet Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.