Andrew wheeling out the just restored 1957 T-bird in front of their Sacramento house.
Goldie's '57 T-bird & Andrew
Goldie in ther T-bird
Goldie gets Sam, her Burmese
Goldie - Dec 1966
Goldie
Goldie dressed for Sadie Hawkins Days at Corning High
Goldie, 1942
Goldie 1941
Goldie & Andrew during WWII
Goldie & Andrew in San Francisco Market St. club.
Goldie & Andrew with shipmate from USS Gen. MM Patrick & his wife.
Andrew & Goldie in front of Wheeler house on Solano St, Corning, CA - probably 1941 pre-War.
Goldie & Andrew
Goldie & Andrew 1944
Goldie & Andrew, 1991 50th Pearl Harbor attack anniversary
Andrew & Goldie 1985
Young Andrew & Goldie
Andrew's 1956 T-bird
Andrew's '56 Tbird at home in Sacramento
Corning airport airshow ca. 1935
Corning Air Show ca. 1935
Corning Airport airshow ca. 1935
Corning friend John Harret & Andrew with early model plane Andrew built
Andrew in his first convertible
Andrew at 14 mos. with sister Claire behind little wagon
Young Andrew with his dog Spot
Young Andrew in front of Wheeler's 6th St. house, Corning
Andrew
Claire & Andrew Wheeler
14 year old Andrew in 1938 - unknown location but setting clear
Andrew on his trike at Wheeler house (then grandparents' place) on Solano St., Corning
Andrew back row left with “Construction & Repair (C&R) Division” crew on the USS General MM Patrick
Andrew 2nd from left back row - “R” Div., USS General M.M. Patrick (AP150) ca. 1944-45
Andrew (left) with shipmates from Gen MM Patrick, 26 Jun 1945, San Pedro, CA
Andrew's frist duty ship (& throughout most of WWII), USS Raleigh (CL-7), after hit in Pearl Harborn 7 Dec 1941. See: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/cl7.htm
USS Utah rolled over foreground - USS Raleigh background after attack.
Andrew & USS Raleigh participate in bombardment of Kiska Alaska, 1943
USS Enterprise - Andrew onboard only for tansit from California to Hawaiii in early 1941 for assignment to USS Raleigh.
Late in war, Andrew assigned to USS Gen. M.M. Patrick (AP-150) for precommissioning duty, Kaiser Yard 3, Richmond, CA, then part of her crew for rest of WWII. See: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22150.htm
A view of Leyte in the Philippines near where Andrew helped bury the Captain of the Gen. MM Patrick. The skipper was killed by a Kamikaze plane that clipped the ship's flying bridge.
USS Haven hospital ship to which Andrew was assigned in Apr 1946 & included duty as part of “Operation Crossroads,” the atom bomb testing on Bikini Atoll. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads & http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/12/1212.htm
Andrew's Navy Boot Camp Company, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1941 - Andrew 3rd row 8th from right.
USN Training Station front gate, San Diego, CA (postcard photo)
Andrew early Navy photo 1941 (post boot camp?)
Corning Navy enlistment mate Bob & Andrew at USN Training Station, San Diego, CA.
Andrew early Navy photo
Andrew with USN norther latitude reglation mustache & goatee aboard the USS Raleigh, Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Andrew's shipmate “Kish” on USS Haven's forecastle.
Andrew's early Raleigh “Liberty Card”
Aunt Nellie & Claire Wheeler in front of Wheeler Plumbing Shop, Solano St., Corning - looking east.
Pop's red plaid hydroplane 1-person speed boat.
Family on friend's ChrisCraft speedboat pulling Wheeler ski-sled.
Young Claire Wheeler on family's Dodge in back of Solano St. Wheeler house with barn & part of tankhouse showing.
Family dog Hansel, Janice & Claire holding Keith on Wheeler plumbing shop truck's running board.
Young Wheeler, Craig & Jolly cousins get ready to throw rice behind Corning's 1st Christian Church after reception for Grandma's marriage to John Carter in 1958.
Sister Janice & Jim Craig and their family in 1996.
Hansel at controls of Wheeler 3-wheeler go-cart made by “Pop” Wheeler & his crew at the plumbing shop.
Little brother Keith plays at driving the Wheeler-made motorized go-cart.
Hansel in front of the “trailer house” made for him to be towed behind gocart.
Hansel stikes one of his favorite poses for big brother Andrew who is off fighting the War with the Navy in the Pacific (photo taken in front of west Solano St., Corning, CA, 1942).
Young Janice Wheeler & younger brother Keith pose on side of front porch of Wheeler's Solano St. home.
H. Saint Clare Wheeler holding daughter Janice in front of Wheeler's 6th St. house in Corning.
Janice Wheeler on way-cool trike at 6th St house, Corning, CA.
Jance, Hansel & baby Keith in front of house trailer at 6th St house, Corning.
Young Keith Wheeler with is “other brother” Hansel in front of 6th St. house, Corning.
Cool Keith with hat “Pop” bought.
Cowboy Keith, age 5 with cat & tent.
Mom (Doris Birch-Wheeler) in front of family Dodge behind Wheeler's Solano St. house - barn & small part of tank house showing in background.
Mom (Doris Wheeler) in the 1930's.
Mom (Doris Wheeler) with young Janice near 6th St. house.
Harry St. Clare Wheeler in front of 6th St. house, Corning, CA
H. S. Wheeler
St. Clare Wheeler in Forest Svc togs when he worked for USFS building an area CCC camp during depression.
“Pop” (H. S. Wheeler) in 1930's (probably taken in late '30s shortly before his death in 1939).
Wheeler siblings - Andrew, Janice, Claire & Keith - Corning, CA, 1949.
Wheeler sibs (Keith, Janice, Claire, Andrew) with Mom in Corning living room (this photo in Rosdail's “Slooper” book).
Wheeler sibs with Mom
Claire & Andrew giving baby sister Janice a bath on the steps of the 6th St. house.
Early Wheeler sibs photo - Claire holding baby Keith, Janice in front of Andrew, with brother Hansel on bike in center.
Wheeler sibs (Keith, Claire & Janice, Andrew) with Mom.
Jim & Janice Craig, with Claire between Goldie & Andrew Wheeler (pobably at Corning church hall celebrating one of Mom's birthdays).
Goldie & Andrew (center) with son Larry (R) & Michael (L) at Michael's wedding in 1966.
Mom, Andrew, Goldie & K-9 son in Sacramento 1993.
“Mom” (Doris Birch-Wheeler-Carter)
Andrew, Mom & friends in Sacramento 1993
Keith & Andrew at Napa Slooper Monument dedication 2004. [See: http://www.wheelerfolk.org/slooper/10join_us.htm ]
Einar Slogvik from Norway, brother Keith & Andrew Wheeler, Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, CA, May 2004 just prior to dedicating Norway immigrant Slooper monument stone. [Click here for full story of this family related event: http://www.wheelerfolk.org/slooper/slooper_monument_project.htm ]
