Christmas is cancelled - I'm calling in sick this year. Hurry, Spring, hurry.

Lois Wheatley Born on October 11, 1948 in San Jose, California, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 8th. A 1966 graduate of Del Mar High School, in San Jose, Lois (Shaver) Wheatley is survived by her husband, David Wheatley, her daughter Jennifer Cody of San Jose, her son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Sarah Cody of Oakland, and her sister Betty Bennett of Seattle, Washington. Lois worked for AT&T, Bay Networks, MCI and most recently, Westcor. Lois loved traveling, movies, music and animals. She enjoyed baseball and spent many days at San Francisco Giants games. She was the score keeper for the Jerseys Softball team, in Campbell, California for over 14 years. Lois always had a smile and kind word, and was the type of person people loved to talk with.

- Published in the San Jose Mercury News on 12/9/2005 -


Mother, your last breath. . .
I was there as you were
at my first.








Mother, old photos
of you, young and radiant –
pregnant at 18
and easy to see why!

Oh my. Oedipal urges. . .

ALS claimed my mother last night at approximately 11:15.

My step-dad and I were with her when she went.