Jim Crane’s Wife Whitney Wheeler

Whitney Wheeler

Meet Whitney Wheeler; she is the beautiful wife of Texas businessman Jim Crane. Mr. Crane is the owner of the Houston Astros is in addition majority shareholder of Champion Energy, Crane Freight & Shipping, Crane Worldwide Logistics and the chief executive of Crane Capital Group.

The first thing you need to know about the lovely Mrs. Whitney Wheeler aka Whitney Crane is that she is actually Mr. Crane’s wife #3.

He was initially married to his first wife Theresa Kay Crane (nee. Welch), mother of his two eldest children, Jared (b. 1982) and Krystal Crane now Krystal Thompson (b. 1984). They divorced in 1990.

M. Crane’s lovely daughter, Krystal is now married to Garrett Thompson; father of her adorable daughter Emma James Thompson and Vice President Operations at Vistamont Realty Management. Her big brother Jared, is the president and founder of Incite Energy, he holds a BS in Business Administration from California Lutheran University.

Subsequently, in 1993, came wife #2, Dallas Native Francigene “Franci” Neely Beck, an attorney, board chair and a founder of the Houston Cinema Arts Society and financial supporter of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, alongside her ex-husband.

Franci and Jim Crane didn’t have any children, eventually divorced in February 2015 after 21 years of marriage; allegedly Franci walked out with $30 million.

Pretty Mrs. Wheeler, also known as Whitney Lyn Kreb and Whitney Miller, was born on February 18, 1969, in California. Whitney attended at Pinewood High School in Los Altos, California, before attending at California Polytechnic State University.

On June 1, 2017, Jim Crane tied the knot for the third time, to the lovely Whitney Wheeler, mother of his youngest son James Robert Crane II, 3.