Wheder McDougal ’25

"WHEE" McDOUGAL was born in Peoria, Ill., and died there at age 87 on Feb. 24, 1989.

He prepared at Lawrenceville and also attended Kenyon College. He was a member of Cottage.

He worked as a bank examiner for the Federal Deposit insurance Corp. in Peoria, Chicago, and Washington. After WWII, in which he served in the Coast Guard, he served as an officer in banks in Washington and Peoria, retiring as a V.P. of Commercial Natl. Bank of Peoria.

He was active in many community organizations, including the Community Chest and two school boards, of which he was president. He was also president of the Peoria Country Club, and during his residence there he was V.P. of the Princeton Club of Chicago.

He married Kathleen Danford in Washington in 1934, who died Nov. 23, 1988. He is survived by a son, Wheeler Jr., a daughter, Kathleen (Robert) Stevenson, and five grandchildren. Among his Princeton relatives are his brother, the late R. D. McDougal Jr. '19; an uncle in the Class of 1886, and 14 cousins, including Robert McDougal Jr. '26, and Shelby Cullom Davis '30.

The Class of 1925