Andrew Wheeler

Andrew gave so much to those who knew him. He was. Distant cousin of mine and when I moved to the Portland area, he and Julie included me in their Thanksgiving gatherings. I enjoyed visiting them at Willamette View, where he was happy to share his art with others. I will miss him dearly.

Dear Julie, I sorry that the opportunity to visit with you and Andrew has been missed. Andrew played an very important part in my life with he and Kurt hiring me as an apprentice and then educating me on "life in Portland", including stories of his mother raising children on her own with a very limited budget, but high social aspirations. I appreciated his practical desire to be more artistic in his architectural approach, contrasting with Kurt's more "fundamental" concepts. I considered...