Alva Review-Courier -

Donald Lee "Don" Wessels, age 79, passed from this life on Tuesday, November 21, 2023. Don was born on December 20, 1943, at the Cherokee Masonic Hospital to George and Bessie Mae Jantz Wessels. Don lost his mother at a young age, and his father then married her sister, Donna Jantz (at the request of Bessie), who raised Don as her own child. George and Donna provided Don with two siblings, Ronald and Georgia.

Don grew up in Cherokee, Oklahoma, graduating from Cherokee High School in 1962 and from NWOSU in Alva, Oklahoma, in 1966 with a B.S. in Chemistry. Don met Barbara Burkhart while she was...