Edna May (Carley) Zeig

Class of 1937

1937 Graduation Edition
Perry Daily JournalEdna Carley
Edna Carley

– daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carley of Enid, was born in Hillsdale on May 12, 1919. She attended the elementary grades in Enid and Hillsdale and attended high school in Perry. During her high school career she was in the Red Hots and was selected as Football Homecoming Attendant 1934-35.

Edna May (Carley) Zeig

May 12, 1919 – June 5, 2002

Edna Zeig, 83, of Perry, Oklahoma was the daughter of Kenneth and Nellie (Haskins) Carley. She was born on May 12, 1919 in Hillsdale, Oklahoma and died at her home on June 5, 2002.

Edna moved to Perry from Enid, OK and was a 1937 Perry High School graduate. She married Charlie Zeig on November 28, 1937 in Enid, Oklahoma.

She worked as a nurse aide and also had been employed at JCPenney, Kramers and McLellan’s stores. She attended the First Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School, and was a member and past Noble Grand of the Esther Rebekah Lodge.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 7, 2002 at the First Baptist Churcn with Rev. Buddy Hunt and Rev. Bob Lee officiating. Interment will be at Grace Hill Cemetery under the direction of Brown-Dugger Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church.

Survivors are four nieces, Marcella Hatfield, Enid, Oklahoma, Teresa Underwood, Ponca City, Oklahoma, Shirley Parkey and Carol East, both of Tulsa, Oklahoma; three nephews, Jess Thrasher, of Washington, Kenneth Sweetwood, Enid, Oklahoma, and Leland Sweetwood, Arkansas City, Kansas; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Carley, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Floyd Carley, Auburn, Washington.

Her husband, Charlie, parents, two sisters and three half-brothers preceded her in death.