Frank Wheatley Jr., retired radiologist

Frank E. Wheatley Jr., a retired radiologist, died Aug. 3 in Gainesville, Fla. He was 88 and had lived in Milton and Lexington.

Dr. Wheatley was born in Brockton and grew up in Milton. He graduated from Milton High School in the late 1930s. He was the grandson of Frank G. Wheatley, one of the founders of Tufts Medical School, and the son of Frank E. Wheatley, one of the first radiologists in the Boston area.

Frank E. Wheatley Jr. graduated from Dartmouth College in 1942 and Tufts Medical School in 1945. He served as a doctor in the US Navy during World War II and was stationed at the Panama Canal. He completed his residency at Philadelphia Naval Hospital.

After leaving the military, Dr. Wheatley moved with his wife, Patricia, to Milton and practiced radiology at Milton Hospital. He served as chief of radiology there for a decade, beginning in 1953.

In 1963, Dr. Wheatley moved to Lexington, where he joined a radiology group practice at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Choate Medical Center.

Dr. Wheatley retired in 1980 and moved to Ormond Beach, Fla. His first marriage ended in divorce. He married Helen Dasler in 1981.

In addition to his wife, Dr. Wheatley leaves a son, Ted of Winchester; four daughters, Pat Haslam of Vancouver, British Columbia; Cyndy Thompson of Kennebunk, Maine; Sarah Cooley of Eliot, Maine; and Beth Doran of Newton; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A funeral Mass will be said Tuesday at 11 a.m. in St. Elizabeth's Church in Milton.