Class of 1956
1956 Maroon Spotlight
Francis Nagel
F.F.A. 53-56, Basketball 53, Wrestling 53-54.
1956 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
“Singing, western style,” is one of the hobbies of Francis Raymond Nagel, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Nagel of route 2, Perry. He also enjoys hunting, trapping, and wood carving. Nagel expects to become a member of the Marine Corps after graduating from Perry high school. He was born May 18, 1937, in Enid, and came to Noble county with his parents in 1939. He has been a member of the Future Farmers of America since 1953. He participated in basketball in 1952-53 and wrestling in 1953-54.
Francis Raymond “Bud” Nagel
May 18, 1937 – February 19, 2009
Francis Raymond “Bud” Nagel, 71, of Perry, Oklahoma, was born to Ray H. and Cecelia Fiedler Nagel on May 18, 1937 in Enid, Oklahoma. He returned to our Heavenly Father on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at the Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
He grew up on the family farm west of Perry, Oklahoma. Bud graduated from St. Joseph Catholic grade school and then graduated from the Perry Public High School in 1955. He served his country as a member of the United States Marine Corp from 1955 to 1957 during the Korean War. After his honorable discharge, he returned to Perry where he lived until his death.
Bud was a known outdoorsman for his hunting, trapping, fishing skills and knowledge. He was a well known wood carver, leather worker and craft man. In his later years he worked at the county jail, taught hunter’s safety classes for the Wild Life Department and became a photographer of wild life. In the most recent years he was known for the hundreds of humming birds that used his many humming bird feeders at his home.
He was a member of the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church. He also was a member of the Federal Wildlife Association, the Oklahoma Trapping Association and a lifetime member of the NRA and he enjoyed being a master trapper and a hunter’s education safety instructor.
Bud is survived by three sisters, Theresa Nagel Smith and her husband, Charles, and Barbara Nagel, all of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Carol Pritchett and her husband, Hal, of Perry, Oklahoma; two nieces, Theresa Unruh of Yale, Oklahoma and Catherine Pritchett of Perry, Oklahoma; one nephew, PR Pritchett of Edmond, Oklahoma and one great-nephew, Johnathan Pritchett of Yale, Oklahoma.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Mass will be 11:00 a.m. Monday, February 23, 2009 at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church. Father Tom Dowdell will officiate. Interment will be in St. Rose of Lima Catholic Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Wildlife Federation.