Class of 1957
1957 Maroon Spotlight
Elmira Phelps
Class Assembly 54-55, Red Hots 54-57, Red Hot Vice-President 55-56, Red Hot Secretary 56-57, All School Revue 55-56, Office Staff 54-57, Senior Class Secretary 56-57.
1957 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Elmira Ann Phelps plans to enter business school or employment following graduation from Perry high school. Elmira, 17, is the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Phelps, 1301 Cedar street. She was born April 13, 1939, in Orlando, and has attended Fairview rural school in Noble county, Placentia, California, and Perry schools. Home economics is her favorite subject and dancing is her hobby. School activities include Red Hots four years, office staff three years, participation in an all-school revue, secretary of the senior class, assembly programs, secretary of the Red Hots the past year, 1955-56 vice president of the Red Hots and parts in her junior and senior class plays.
Elmira Ann (Phelps) Qualls
April 13, 1939 – February 25, 2006
Elmira Ann Qualls, 66, Stillwater, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006, in Oklahoma City.
Services, under the direction of Strode Funeral Home, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Strode Funeral Home Chapel in Stillwater. Interment will be in Grace Hill Cemetery in Perry. Family will greet friends at Strode Funeral Home from 6:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Qualls was born April 13, 1939, in Orlando to Fred and Martha (Baumgartner) Phelps. She attended school in Perry, graduating from Perry High School in 1957, and she remained a devoted Perry Maroon.
After high school, she attended Draughn’s School of Business in Oklahoma City, receiving her diploma in 1959. She then worked for American First Title and Trust and Southwest Canvas in Oklahoma City. After that, she worked for OSU for 16 years as senior secretary in the biochemistry department.
She loved her co-workers and her interaction with the many students she met and assisted throughout her years at OSU. In 1996, she received the Distinguished Service Award from OSU.
Her greatest joy was spending time with her grandchildren and watching her beloved OSU cowboys play ball. She will he missed by all those who knew her and loved her.
She was a member of Highland Park Freewill Baptist Church.
She was predeceased by her parents.
Survivors include one son, Zane Qualls and his wife Linda; three daughters, Robin Stigall, Shari Crawford and Jennifer Harrison and her husband Toby; nine grandchildren, Brandi Lynn Stigall, April Renee Stigall, Douglas Albert Crawford, Derek Zane Crawford, Kara Michelle Qualls, Cole Davis Harrison, Dane Todd Harrison, Lucas Samuel Qualls, and Zachary Taylor Qualls; and one sister, LaNelma Johnson and her husband Ray.