Class of 1938
1938 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
John Morgan
– son of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Morgan and was born in Perry. He has always attended the Perry schools and during his high school years has been a member of the football team and basketball team. He will take up Diesel Engineering after graduation.
John Cecil Morgan
November 10, 1917 – October 10, 1976
Funeral will be Thursday for John C. Morgan, 58, Orlando, Fla., formerly of Perry, who died at approximately 4 p.m. Sunday at Orange Memorial hospital at Orlando. Woodlawn Funeral home will be in charge of arrangements. Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial cemetery at Orlando, Fla.
Morgan, son of James C. and Jennie B. Morgan, was born Nov. 10, 1917, at Perry and was a 1938 graduate of Perry high school. He and Phyllis Audrey Oliver were married in Missouri on Jan. 9, 1943.
Following postgraduate studies, he entered the Air Force. He later studied two years at Oklahoma State university before re-enlisting in the Air Force, from which he was retired. Morgan was due retirement this year from the United States Postal Service.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis, of the home; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Dawling, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Frances Wyckoff, Encinitas, Calif.; and Mrs. Zella Rose Emery, Perry; and a number of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by three brothers.