Class of 1968
1968 Maroon Spotlight
Debra Morgan
F. H. A. 65-66; Christmas Vespers 66-67; Girls’ Chorus 66-68; All-School Revue 66-68; Home Ec. Style Show 65-66.
1968 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
A business education course at Oklahoma State university is the next goal of Debra Jean Morgan, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Morgan, 300 Birch street. She was born Aug. 18, 1950, in Shawnee. Miss Morgan is among those from here taking courses this year at O. T. Autry vocational-technical school in Enid. She was a member of the PHS band 1965-66, has participated in musical event since 1966, and was in the Future Homemakers 1965-55. Typing is her favorite subject. Her hobby is horseback riding, especially barrel racing. She plans to have a career as a secreatry.
Debra Jean Morgan
August 18, 1950 – August 18, 1970
Debra Jean Morgan, 20, and her mother, Mrs. Howard C (Grace) Morgan, 48, both of 300 Birch street, died of injuries received at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in a head-on automobile collision 8.5 miles west of Stillwater on state highway 51. Mrs. Morgan was dead upon arrival at Stillwater Municipal hospital. Debra Jean died at the hospital about an hour after the accident.
Mrs. Morgan and Debra had been returning home from Stillwater, where Debra enrolled Tuesday as a sophomore at Oklahoma State university. Tuesday was Debra’s 20th birthday.
Miss Morgan was born Aug. 18, 1950, at Shawnee. She came to Perry in 1951 with her parents. She was a 1968 graduate of Perry high school and was enrolled at OSU. She was a member of the Christian church and had been employed at the watershed protection office of soil conservation service.
The survivors include her father, Howard Morgan, of the home; a sister, Mrs. Glenwood Groom Jr., of Perry; her paternal grandmother, Mrs. F. C. Frazier of Perry; and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Coy O’Rear of Pawhuska.
Joint services will be a 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Christian church. Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.