Dennis Wheeler
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Dennis Wheeler

Dennis W. Wheeler
Born 1950s.
Ancestors ancestors
Brother of and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
Father of , [private daughter (1980s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1990s - unknown)]
Died 2020s.
Profile last modified | Created 21 Apr 2016
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Dennis Wheeler was a wonderful member of our WikiTree community who has passed away. Dennis Wheeler made many contributions and will be missed.

Biography

Dennis Wheeler was born in Dallas, Texas the eldest of three children born to Tommy and Beth Wheeler. Both his siblings, Kathy and Gary were born in Port Lavaca, Texas. The family lived in Matador and Ropesville, Texas while Tommy completed his Masters degree at Texas Tech, before returning to Dallas. After Beth died, Tommy married Joyce Preston who already had an older son George and daughter Sandra and moved to DeSoto, Texas.

After completing High School in DeSoto, Dennis attended Abilene Christian University studying subjects ranging from Computer Science to Math to Spanish, including a summer trip to Torreón, Coahuila, México. Then he moved to the Bay area, Atherton and Menlo Park, California where he had spent a previous summer on a mission trip. He lived there for a couple of years until his grandfather Palmer Wheeler died. He moved back to Dallas to live with his grandmother Lena until shortly before she died a few years later.

Dennis lived with his older brother George and his family in DeSoto for a short time while saving money to buy a mobile home in Glenn Heights, Texas. He met his wife Vicki Trevathan at his grandparents church in Oak Cliff (a Dallas neighborhood), the Cliffwood church of Christ. Together, they have been blessed with three daughters, each born in Dallas, Sarah, Joanna and Lydia. They lived in Glenn Heights and Dallas, while working in and around the Dallas area and Waxahachie, Texas.

After 13 years as a printing press operator, and a couple more programming classes, Dennis got back into computers and transferred to Seattle, Washington working for a number of high tech companies. He and his family lived in Bellevue, Washington for a couple of years and currently live in Kent, Washington.

Hobbies have included bicycle riding, playing bass guitar, singing gospel music, watching movies, short sight-seeing trips, playing the Asian game of Go, and exploring his family history. He teaches beginning players at the Seattle Go Center.

Diagonosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Oct 2019.

DNA testing

I've recently (Nov 4th) ordered a FamilyFinder test (au) and results are in. I don't know what any of it means, other than I'm human and have lots of cousins. GEDMatch number is T551698, and FTDNA kit number is 570627.

I haven't yet done a Y-dna test yet, but based on other known relatives, I think my Haplogroup is R-M269 (R1b1); Common Ancestor group 2 for the Wheeler surname. But I don't know what any of that means yet.

Sources

  • First-hand information. Entered by Dennis Wheeler at registration.
  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 99 cM Family Finder match between Dennis Wheeler and his maternal second cousin once removed, Rhitt Garrett. see Relationship Finder
  • Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 150 cM Family Finder match between Dennis Wheeler and his paternal second cousin once removed, Joyce Lombardi. see Relationship Finder
  • Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 99 cM Family Finder match between Dennis Wheeler and his paternal third cousin once removed, Neil Wheeler. see Relationship Finder

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Hello Dennis

My late husband was a Standridge

His mother gave me an envelope with family documents after his death in 2016, she knew my love of geneology...and puzzles

As you are the first person I have seen with his family name... felt it was for reasons greater than my own.

Standridge ()Kevin's father is Allen Standridge Kenosha Wisconsin Married Christine Macrovich...spelled wrong...will correct later

We did not have any children together However He had a daughter With Tracy Vance Stein and Vance criss cross around the 4th generation My DNA is connected to Erich Stein

Anyway... His mother shared a story once ..they could trace the Standridge family to the civil war....not sure if factual or family stories

Would love to hear back Bertina M (Labanow)

Hi Dennis! I ran across your profile and thought I'd let you know that I have Wheelers in my family that the into my Harrison line.

Greta

posted by Greta Moody
That's awesome. But there are a lot of Wheeler's in the world, and they don't all come from the same line. By daughter just married an unrelated (as far as we can tell) Wheeler.
posted by Dennis Wheeler
Yes, thats true. We are also cousins but not through Wheelers':

Dennis and Greta are 10th cousins Dennis Wheeler and Greta Moody are both descendants of Thomas Burton.

posted by Greta Moody
No problem Dennis, if you would like to add this template to your profile or your wife's profile. It creates the connection to a specific President. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:US_President_Relative A list of the Presidents can be found at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Presidential_Project_Page
posted by Robin Lee
As part of a re-vitalization of the WikiTree US Presidents Project we are asking members if they are planning to continue their contributions to the project. We are establishing a page where everyone can identify the President or Vice President that they wish to manage. Just respond to this message to let me know 1) Are you planning to continue with the Project and 2) do you have a specific President or Vice President that you are interested in.
posted by Robin Lee
For the errors, please mark the report as FALSE ERROR with comment.

Thank you!

posted by Sheryl Moore
Thanks so much for your help on merging two of my entries.
posted by Sheryl McPhee
Welcome to the US History Project and the Texas subproject!!
posted by Paula J
Hi Dennis,

My only question about merging Joicy Wheeler and Joice Wheeler is the dates and the fact they are listed as sisters to each other....

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for your g2g contributions! On your comment regarding redirects, I was clicking reply (on my iPhone) and accidentally hit hide instead. I clicked reshow and that is why if you look at your comment now you will see where it says reshow. I wanted to let you know I was the one who had accidentally hidden your comment and it wasn't intentional. I do apologize!

Thanks!

Paula

posted by Paula J
Hi Dennis.

I notes you are doing lots of work on G2G on wikkitree why not join integrator team and get a badge for your amazing work!? Please let me know and will ask David Selman and Keith Hathaway to send you the detail and a integrator badge. Looking forward to hear from you Susan https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators

Hi Dennis,

I notice it has been some time that you have been very active on wikitree. I hope all is well and that you would continue being an integral contributor here on wikitree.

Best regards

posted by Anthony McCabe
Hi Dennis

I'd like to invite you to join in the "Weekend Chat" on G2G Today!

Share personal successes, stories about ancestors, tips, projects you are working on, or anything else you wish.

New members stop in and say Hello, introduce yourself, share your story, or ask for help.

Pilots, Mentors, and Leaders of all kinds please add something... your advice is always greatly appreciated.

Current Weekend Chat link is: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/420406/weekend-chat-all-members-are-invited-july-7th-9th-2017

The current Weekend Chat is active until Monday July 10, 2017 (Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Catch up on what everyone is up to and say hi. IT'S NEVER TOO LATE!

See you there! Dorothy

posted by Dorothy Barry

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