Funeral services for Frenchie L. Wheeler, age 77, of Owens will be at 2 p.m. today in the Davis-Morris Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Jack Hughes and Donnie Wilson officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery. Frenchie passed away on Friday, March 3, 2006, at his home. He was born on Dec. 22, 1928, in Owens to John Willie and Nora Elizabeth Browning Wheeler. He married Wanda Nell Eoff on Dec. 19, 1952, in Brownwood. Frenchie was a longtime resident of Owens and member of the Vine Street Church of Christ. He retired from the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier and began his true love of farming. He is survived by his wife, Wanda of Owens, two daughters, Karen Allen and husband Friou of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Rhonda Linn and husband Mel of Brownwood; five grandchildren, J. C. Pruett, Shannon Montagna, Laura Pruett, Amy Lindsay, and Matt Lindsay; four great-grandchildren, Brittani Pruett, Isaac Pruett, Darovin Showalter, and Geridan Pruett; and two sisters, Virginia Jones of Joshua and Joyce White of Conroe. Frenchie was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Terrie Pruett Gilchrist, and two brothers, Ocie and Willie Dee Wheeler.