Rev. Donald Wheat, 92

Rev. Donald Wheat, 92

Rev. Donald Wheat Rev. Don Wheat, 92, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Dayton, Ohio on Halloween 1933, Donald Hoover Wheat was the rare working-class, Great-Depression baby named for President Hoover. Parents William and Frances Cabbell Wheat eloped out of rural Kentucky in the white migration to find Northern jobs. Unaccustomed to help from politicians, they gave their fourth and final child the middle name of the president who awarded pensions t…