BUTNER - William Alva Wheless, 86, formerly of 301 8th St., died Friday, December 11, 2009, at Carolina Medical Center in Concord.

A native of Franklin County, he was a son of the late Billy and Lena Bowden Wheless. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Butner and a retired barber.

Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at First Baptist Church in Butner by the Rev. Lenny Rogers. Burial followed in Carolina Memorial Gardens in Creedmoor.

Surviving: daughter, Sandra L. Edwards of Durham; sons, Ronald Alva Wheless and Gary Dean Wheless, both of Butner, and William Green Wheless of Oxford; brother, W.C. Wheless of Durham; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren.

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