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WEXLER -- Steven Daniel Wexler, 65, died suddenly on December 20, 2010 in Tijeras, New Mexico, where he lived with his wife Maria Guadalupe. He graduated from Nyack High School in Nyack, NY, in 1963 and from Columbia University in 1967, and served his military duty as a conscientious objector at the former Deaconess Hospital in St Louis, Missouri, where he was an orderly. For many years he earned his living as a carpenter but always wanted to be a writer. Pursuing that goal, he was accepted in a masters degree program in creative writing at the University of New Mexico, and also matriculated there as a teacher. For 10 years he taught economic history and English literature in an alternative high school in Albuquerque, while writing his first novel "Scamming God," using the pen name Morgan Ibarra. He was working on a sequel. He is survived by his wife; his brother, David Niels; his sister, Jessica Sarah Tomb; his mother, Miriam Haagens Wexler; and a nephew, Benjamin Darrow Creed. His father, Jacob Klein Wexler, predeceased him.
        Published on: Wed January 26, 2011