Class of 1970
1970 Maroon Spotlight
Jim Beisel
Office Staff 9, FFA 9, 10, 11, Enid Vocational School 11, 12, Jr. Play Committee.
1970 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Jimmy Dean Beisel lost his life in a traffic accident a few days before he was to have received his diploma at Perry High School. This is the biographical sketch which was to have appeared in this edition. We feel it is appropriate that it be included in his memory
Jimmy Dean Beisel was born Jan. 7, 1952, in Perry to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beisel, 8 Birch street. He attended Oakdale Center school in grades 1 through 7. He has been active in FFA since 1966 and was secretary of the freshman FFA. Auto mechanics is his favorite subject and building stock cars is a hobby. He plans to pursue an occupation until called by the draft.
Jimmy Dean Beisel
January 7, 1952 – May 17, 1970
Jimmy Dean Beisel, 18, a member of the senior class at Perry high school, died early Sunday of head injuries received in a one-automobile accident at 12:20 a.m. Sunday 7.6 miles east of Pawnee on U.S. highway 64.
Born Jan. 7, 1952, in Perry, Beisel had attended school at Oakdale Center before coming to Perry. He had been a member of the Perry chapter of the Future Farmers of America and had served as secretary of his freshman class FFA group.
Automobile mechanics was his hobby and he had hoped to make that field his future work.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beisel, northwest of Perry; two brothers, Cecil and Harry, both of Perry; and one sister, Mrs. Frances Roesler, of Hominy.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the First Christian church of Perry. Burial will be in Mount Carmel cemetery, seven miles north and three west of Perry. Officiating will be Rev. James Lambed, pastor of the First Christian church.