{"id":10503,"date":"2017-12-27T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=10503"},"modified":"2018-03-03T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T19:08:30","slug":"obituary-keyser-perry-irving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=10503","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Keyser, Perry Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1932<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Perry Irving Keyser<\/h1>\n<h3>August 29, 1914 &#8211; November 30, 1981 <\/h3>\n<p>Perry Irving Keyser, 67, Enid, retired teacher of music and brother of a Perry woman, died Monday evening at an Ok\u00adlahoma City hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 10 a .m. Thursday at Wesley Memorial chapel of the First United Meth\u00adodist church of Enid. Officiating will be Rev. John W. Dowdy, Dr. Irving L. Smith and Rev. Orville Parham.<\/p>\n<p>Keyser was born at Perry, Aug. 29, 1914, to George and Lottie (Acers) Keyser. He was a graduate of Perry high school and Cen\u00adtral State university. Keyser received his masters degree from West Texas State university at Canyon and was a music instructor for 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was band director at Hen\u00adnessey, Tipton, Altus, Medford, Meeker, Craig and Ringwood, Okla., and Memphis, Texas schools. He was married to Marguerite Dowdy, Aug. 30, 1940, at Okeene. The couple moved to Enid in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Keyser was a member of the First United Methodist church of Enid and the National Teachers association. He served with the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Mrs. Keyser, survivors are two sons, Perry Jr., Dodge City, Kan. and Michael D., Houston, Texas; a sister, Mrs. John (Helen) Mor\u00adrison, north of Perry; and three grandchildren.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10503\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}