Class of 1908

Bruce Russell Lucas

September 19, 1890 – March 20, 1960

Services for Bruce R. Lucas, 69, of 1806 Euclid, Lawton, Okla., who died about 2:30 a.m. Sunday in a local hospital, were at 10 a.m. today in Ritter Funeral home chapel.

Rev. W. S. Parish Jr., pastor of the First Christian church, officiated and burial was in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Members of the Domestic Science club and the Lookout Sunday school class of the First Christian church sat in a group.

Lucas was born September 19, 1890, in Palisade, Nebraska, to James M. and Martha Jane (Jameson) Lucas. He graduated from Perry high school in 1908. He and the former Nelle M. Vanatta, who survives, were married in Perry on October 8, 1917.

Lucas served as Perry’s City Clerk before they moved to Lawton where he worked as a pharmacist.