{"id":12429,"date":"2018-10-24T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=12429"},"modified":"2018-10-24T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:32:30","slug":"obituary-hester-r-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=12429","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Hester, R. Vaughn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1919_Hester_Vaughn.jpg\" alt=\"R. Vaughn Hester\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1919<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>R. Vaughn Hester<\/h1>\n<h3>February 21, 1899 &#8211; November 12, 1961<\/h3>\n<p>Vaughn Hester, 62, director of the Perry-Noble county civil defense unit, died at 5:40 p.m. Sunday in St. Anthony hospital, Oklahoma City, where he had been a patient several days.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Newton chapel with Rev. Earl Gibbs, minister of the First Christian church, officiating.  Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Hester was born Feb. 21, 1899, in Perry, and was a graduate of Perry high school.  He was active in athletics and other school affairs.  He was employed by a city grocery store before taking a position as salesman with a wholesale grocery concern, serving until 1958.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the First Christian church, past president of the Lions club, past master of Perry Masonic lodge No. 78 A.F. &#038; A.M., and a member of Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar commandery.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Anise Wetzel, Perry; a sister, Mrs. Joe McClellan, Perry; and a brother, James Johnson, Edmond.<\/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\/12429"}],"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=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12429\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}