Extracted from the Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Thursday, August 16, 1945

Death Takes John Wiser, Lumberman

John M. Wiser, 47, widely known lumber dealer, died Wednesday. His home was at 4432 Southern and he had been in ill-health for several years.

Wiser had been connected with the Long-Bell Lumber Company for twenty-five years and had been district sales manager, with offices in Dallas, for twenty years.

He was a native of Euless, and was educated in Fort Worth public schools. After coming to Dallas he became active in the First Methodist Church, where he was a steward. He was a thirty-second-degree Mason and member of the Shrine.

Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Vesta Ard, whom he married in 1926; a son, John M. Wiser Jr.; a nephew, S-Sgt. J. L. Shaw, Army Air Forces, missing in action; parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wiser, Grapevine; three brothers and four sisters.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Sparkman-Brand Chapel, 2115 Ross, and burial will be at Restland Memorial Park. Officiating at services will be Dr. E. R. Barcus, the Rev. T. L. Dalton and the Rev. John Duckett, who is of Athens.

Pallbearers, fellow members of the Ferguson Sunday school class which Wiser joined twenty-two years ago, will be Tim Turner, Cecil Murphy, O. D. Aston, John Crawford, Raymond Rabke and Bill Crawford.