Irma A. (Lunger) Clasby

July 26, 1905 – March 1, 1976

Irma A. Clasby, 70, of 3145 NW 13, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died Monday in her home following a sudden illness.

Born in Perry, Oklahoma, on July 26, 1905, she was the daughter of Joseph L. and Olive Jane Meyers Lunger. Following her graduation from Perry high school in 1924, she attended Oklahoma A. & M. college in Stillwater for two years.

At a rural school in Pawnee in the first semester of the 1926-27 academic year, Irma began her teaching career. She then taught at the Clarkson rural school southeast of Mulhall, Oklahoma. At Clarkson she met William H. Clasby, a fellow teacher. They were married on May 19, 1927, in Tulsa. After their marriage Irma taught in a Payne County rural school and William served as principal. Irma took time off from teaching to be a mom to two daughters. In 1944 she resumed her teaching career in the Mulhall public school until her retirement.

She was a longtime resident of Oklahoma City and a member of Linwood United Methodist Church.

Preceding her in death was her husband, William, in 1960.

Survivors include: her two daughters, Mrs. Emmet (Beth) Wilson, Ardmore, and Mrs. Philip Maguire, Oklahoma City; three brothers, Earl Lunger, Philadelphia; Ernest Lunger, Wichita, Kansas, and Lloyd Lunger, Augusta, Kansas; and six grandchildren.

Service for Irma Clasby will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Guardian Watts Funeral Home with burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation heart fund.