Marguerite Laura (Wheeler) Fancher

WINSTED — Marguerite Laura (Wheeler) Fancher died Feb. 6, 2007. She was born in Waterbury Jan. 4, 1926, to Ross R. and Ellen (McCarthy) Wheeler.

Peggy, as she was familiarly known, was the widow of Bernard Blair Fancher Sr., who died in 1966. She was a lifelong resident of Winsted and a communicant at St. Joseph Church. She was retired from Mark Industries.

She is survived by her children, Bernard B. Fancher, Jr. and his wife Lucy of Winsted; daughter Maureen Barber and her husband Alan of Winsted; son Robert Fancher and his wife Linda of Barkhamsted; daughter Gail Fancher and husband Alan Nero of Winsted; daughter Donna LeMere of Torrington; and daughter Sheila Riiska of Winsted. She also leaves her grandchildren, Teresa Krulicki, Garrett and Erica Fancher, Lauren and Michael Barber, Aaron, Adam and Kendra Fancher, Kristen and Ryan Picard and Alan M. Nero II, Jordan and Ian LeMere; and great-grandchildren, Jess and Jared Krulicki and Levi Delaney.

Mrs. Fancher spent her last years in the care of the staff of the Flanders Unit at the Kent Specialty Center in Kent.

Funeral services were held Feb. 9. Burial and graveside services will be conducted in the spring. Memorial contributions may be made to the Flanders Unit at the Kent Specialty Center, 46 Maple Street, Kent, CT 06757 or to the St. Joseph Church Parish Center Project, P.O. Box 808, Winsted, CT 06098.