Submitted by Melva L Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
November 7, 1984 - Wednesday, pg A6 col 3
WESLEY C. AHRENS
Pascagoula, Miss.: - Wesley C. Ahrens, 56, 4607 Hawthorne Dr., Pascagoula, Miss., died Sunday at Kessler Air Foirce Base in Biloxi, Miss., after a short illness.
Interment and burial will be held on Thursday in Pasacagoula, Miss.
Wesley Ahrens was born on April 21, 1928 in Tampico, the son of John and Beatrice Mann Ahrens. He was educated in Lyndon and graduated in 1946. On March 9, 1958 he married Mary Christine E. Musselwhite. He retired from the U.S. Navy and was working at Ingells Ship Yard in Pascagoula at the time of his death.
Surviving are his wife; three stepsons, Douglas, James and Larry; one daughter, Mrs. George (Marilee) Kerr; three sisters, Mrs. Howard (Helen) Wheelock, Rockford, Mrs. Claude (Florence) Pitts, Nelson, and Mrs. Hugh (Lillian) Baughman, Varina, Iowa, and Willis Ahrens, Lyndon.
Preceding him in death were his parents, three brothers and a granddaughter.
|
