Class of 1951
1951 Maroon Spotlight
Lois Wilson
Band Queen Attendant 48-49, Red Hots 48-51, Cheerleader 49-51, Student Council 50-51, D. E. 50-51, Office Staff 47-49, Girls Sextet 49-50, Mixed Chorus 49-50, Courtesy Guide 48-50, Junior Girls Trio 49-50.
1951 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
A job at the telephone office will occupy Lois Ann Wilson, 18, following graduation from Perry high school. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wilson, 716 Ash street, and has attended the city school system five years. Prior to that she was a student at St. Joseph’s for seven years. Miss Wilson says she does not plan to attend college. She is a past member of the Red Hots pep club, in which she was a cheerleader.
Lois Ann (Wilson) Groom
November 18, 1932 – January 21, 1982
Mrs. Lois Ann Groom, 49, 8 South Seventh street, died at approximately 9:30 p.m. Thursday after she had been found lying alongside a city street near Seventh and Market streets. A fire department ambulance took Mrs. Groom to Perry Memorial hospital at 9 p.m. She died a short time later.
Born Nov. 18, 1932, in Perry, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wilson. She graduated from Perry high school in 1951 and attended Oklahoma State university. She was married in 1951 to Donald Rupp and was married in 1976 to Lynn Groom. She had worked as a beauty operator and a bookkeeper.
Survivors include her husband, Lynn Groom; two daughters, Mrs. Garwin (Deborah) DeRoin, and Mrs. Dennis (Dee) Briegge, both of Perry; a son, Mark Rupp, Perry; her mother, Mrs. Mary George, Kingston, Okla.; three sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Maxine) Minor, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Susan Flynn, Plano, Texas; and Mrs. Everett (Betty) Majors, Tulsa; two brothers, Kenneth Wilson, Oklahoma City, and David Wilson, Albuquerque, N.M.; and two grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Parker chapel. Burial will be at Grace Hill cemetery.