{"id":12132,"date":"2018-09-07T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=12132"},"modified":"2018-09-07T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:53:09","slug":"obituary-letellier-james-eldridge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=12132","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; LeTellier, James Eldridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1926_Letellier_James.jpg\" alt=\"James Eldridge LeTellier\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1928<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>James Eldridge LeTellier<\/h1>\n<h3>March 27, 1908 &#8211; January 16, 1942<\/h3>\n<p>James LeTellier, 33, served in the United States navy since his enlistment on June 3, 1927, after his junior year at Perry high school.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Waldron, Arkansas, to Mr. and Mrs. P. E. LeTellier and moved to Perry with his family in 1921.  He was a chief petty officer in the navy.<\/p>\n<p>LeTellier and Minnie Martin were married in Norfolk, Va. on July 11, 1931.  They made their home in Washington, D.C. for several years with their 8-year-old daughter, Anea Bell. <\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Christian church.<\/p>\n<p>He had flown to Perry from Washington for his brother Grover&#8217;s funeral and was on his way to San Diego, Calif. to exchange the amphibian which he was to ferry back to Washington.  He had planned to stop for a short while at Camp Barkeley, Texas, to return his brother, Paul, who was stationed there.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal mishap was James&#8217; first accident since he had been in the navy. Friends had overheard him remark before leaving Perry that he had been having trouble with a propeller and was expecting trouble of some sort.<\/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\/12132"}],"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=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12142,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12132\/revisions\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}