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Article: Business Owner William S. Wheeler
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 20, 2004
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William Selden Wheeler, 76, president and owner of a numerous
businesses in the Washington suburbs, died June 15 at Capital Hospice-
Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington of complications from
a head injury sustained two months ago while he was working on his
boat in Annapolis.
Mr. Wheeler, an Alexandria resident, lobbied extensively in the
mid-1970s to introduce an emergency shock trauma center to Virginia
after his life was saved by the Maryland center.
"Thirty years later, almost to the day, he went right back to that
unit," said his wife of 52 years, Graydon Wheeler.
In 1974, Mr. Wheeler was a passenger in a speeding Lincoln
Continental that crashed head-on into an oak tree ...