Donald Lee Wheeler the 3rd died on Oct 31, 2000 in the housefire with my family. Donnie was born on November 7,1998. He was 23 months old when he died.

This child was undescribale, he was beautiful, he loved the color yellow, and everthing he seen was yellow,he loved bumble bees and yellow m&m's. He loved to watch Barney on t.v. and he would always sing and dance. He was a very active little guy, he loved to play with J.P. and Matt, he would go outside and play ball and jump on the trampoline with them.

He was just starting his first summer learning how to play in our pool. He went to a christian daycare and had many friends. He was just learning how to say complete sentences right before he died.

His birthday would have been a week after he died. We had his birthday party all planed and his other grandmother had bought him so many toys for his big day.

Donnie died in bed with his mom Shannon, they were found together after the fire. Donnie made me so proud. He called me mom-mom and he called Dick, pop-pop, he would sit in Dick's lap at nite time and give him lots of kisses. He was very affectionate and a good listner. He made it so easy to be his mommom.

I love him so and miss him more then people will ever know. I know that my husband and my children and my grandson are with Christ in Heaven, and I know what my future holds, that I will someday be with them and we will have eternal life together.

My heart hurts more then words can describe, there are no words that even come close to what I have lost.

I do know that God is truly the only one who can and will get me thru this pain. I have lost so much, more then anyone will in a lifetime, but i want my husband and my children remembered.

The community that I live in has remembered them all in such wonder ways. They planted 2 trees at the school that my boys attended and put their names on plaques that will last a lifetime.

I have started a Shannon Gates Scholarship fund in her name at the BeBee Hospital School of Nursing, and each year we give a $500 scholarship to a unwed mother.

The little league where Shannon, J.P. and Matthew played ball honered them at opening day with a big tree and their names on a plaque in their honor. I was asked to throw out the ball in their honor on opening day, and that was a honor for me. To know that this little town in Milton, Delaware loved, missed and honored my children with such importance was truly wonderful.

It is hard to say how to express what I have lost, it seems like it just is impossable to loose so many at one time. My heart is truly sad for each of them, but I know this website will be helpful to me and the many others who remember my family.

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