Class of 1951
1951 Maroon Spotlight
Jean Yeager
D. E. 50-51, Basketball Queen Attendant 48-49, Home Room Secretary 49-50, Home Room Treasurer 49-50.
1951 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Wilma Jean Yager, 18, is the daughter of Mrs. Lois Yager, 641 Fir avenue. She has attended Perry schools three years, Silver Creek three years, and Pawnee three years. At present she is the vice president of the local Distributive Education club and was secretary of her homeroom for the school year 1949-50. Miss Yager plans to enter employment following her graduation from Perry high school.
Wilma “Jean” (Yeager) Bolay
September 6, 1932 – November 15, 2008
Jean Bolay, 76, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was the daughter of Floyd and Lois McKnabb Yeager. She was born September 6, 1932, in Pawnee, Oklahoma and died Saturday, November 15, 2008, at her home.
Jean was a 1951 graduate of Perry High School. She and Clovis E. Bolay were married on December 29, 1951, and together raised two children in the greater Oklahoma City area.
In her spare time she enjoyed oil and water color painting, reading and writing letters. She was a devoted wife and mother and will be sorely missed.
Jean is survived by one daughter, Denese A. Stanley and her husband, Jay, of Edmond, Oklahoma; one son, Dennis A. Bolay and his wife, Sheri, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; three grandchildren, Matt Stanley of Edmond, Oklahoma, Abigail Bolay and John Bolay, both of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; one sister, Cordia Coning of Hollansburg, Ohio; and one brother, Tex Yeager of Shawnee, Oklahoma.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Clovis, in 1998, and her parents.
Graveside services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 22, 2008, at the Grace Hill Memorial Pavilion in Grace Hill Cemetery in Perry, Oklahoma. Rev. Roger Dunn will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.