Class of 1927

1927 PeromaAlfred Trussel
Alfred Trussel

Football; Glee Club.

“Not lazy, just doesn’t like to work.”

Alfred Marcus Trussel

November 15, 1909 – September 4, 1952

Funeral for Alfred M. Trussel, 41, three miles south of Red Rock, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Newton funeral home.

Rev Howard Bush, pastor of the Perry First Methodist church, will officiate and burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.

Trussel died suddenly of a heart attack about 5:45 p.m. Thursday at the Champlin service station in Red Rock.

Trussel was born Nov. 15, 1909, in Hinton. He moved to a farm southwest of Perry with his parents in 1912 and lived there until 1926, when the family moved to Perry. He graduated from Perry high school in 1927.

He was married in Perry to the former Christine Casparis on March 23, 1934. He was a veteran of World war II.

Survivors include his wife of the home; two children, Linda Sue and Cynthia Ann of the home; his father, Sherman J. Trussel, a county commissioner, of Perry; and one sister, Mrs. Maxine Edwards of McAlester.