Class of 1948
1948 Maroon Spotlight
Verna Lee Shelton
Junior Play 47, Band 45-48, Library 45-48, Y-Teens 46-48.
1948 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Future plans are uncertain for Verna Lee Shelton, 17, daughter of J. Roy Shelton of route 1, Perry, following graduation from high school this week.
Miss Shelton was born Dec. 8, 1930, in Perry and attended Fairview district 76 before entering Perry high school. She has been in the band since 1944, Y-Teens since 1946, took part in the junior class play, was on the library staff in 1945-46, and served as assembly director for the eighth grade.
Verna Lee (Shelton) Swart
December 8, 1930 – April 16, 2011
Verna Lee Swart, 80, of Perry, Oklahoma was the daughter of J. Roy Shelton and Clara Darmer. She was born December 8, 1930, in Perry, Oklahoma and passed away April 16, 2011, at her daughters residence in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
She was a 1948 graduate of Perry High School. Verna married Marvin Chester Swart on September 11, 1949, in Perry, Oklahoma, and he preceded her in death on November 18, 1992.
Verna enjoyed quilting, flower gardening, cooking and was an excellent seamstress.
Verna is survived by one son, Terry Swart and his wife Jane of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, two daughters, Beverly Fortune and her husband Oscar of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Marva Laughlin of Duncan, Oklahoma, four grandchildren, Casey Templeton, Kurt Swart, Nicholas Swart and his wife Janelle all of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Matthew Fortune of Stillwater, Oklahoma, eight great-grandchildren, two brothers Leonard Shelton and his wife Anna of Perry, Oklahoma, Ralph Shelton and his wife Darlene of Perkins, Oklahoma and one sister, Barbara Sweger of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
She was preceded in death by her parents J. Roy Shelton and Clara Shelton her husband Marvin Chester Swart.
Memorial Services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at the Brown Dugger Funeral Home Chapel. Inurnment will follow in the Grace Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Judith Karman Hospice.