{"id":13591,"date":"2019-05-11T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13591"},"modified":"2019-05-11T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:28:54","slug":"obituary-coyle-robert-john","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13591","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Coyle, Robert John"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1923<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1923 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1923_Coyle_Robert_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Coyle\" \/><br \/>Robert Coyle<\/h2>\n<p>Football &#8217;21, &#8217;22, &#8217;23; Peroma &#8217;23; Junior Play &#8217;21; Senior Play &#8217;22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t so ambitious as I used to was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Robert John Coyle<\/h1>\n<h3>November 1, 1903 &#8211; September 23, 1953<\/h3>\n<p>Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the First Presbyterian church for Robert J. Coyle, 49, who died Wednesday at 1 p.m. at his home here, 724 Holly street, following a six-month illness.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. John A. Westin, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will conduct last rites.  Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery under direction of the Newton funeral home.  <\/p>\n<p>Coyle, son of a pioneer Oklahoma couple, was born November 1, 1903, in Perry.  His father, the late E. J. Coyle, founded a cotton gin business in 1893 which now includes gins at Perry, Pawnee, Morrison and Skedee.  Robert Coyle had been active in operation of the Perry gin for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Coyle attended Perry schools, graduating in 1923, and was a four-year letterman in football at PHS.  He later attended Oklahoma A.&#038;M. college and the Universtiy of Oklahoma before entering the cotton gin business here.  He was married May 15, 1927, in Chickaska, to the former Beulah Unzicker, who survives.<\/p>\n<p>Coyle was a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian church, a member of the Rotary club and the local Masonic lodge.  He was active in many civic affairs.<\/p>\n<p>In additon to his wife, survivors are a daughter, Nancy, of the home; his mother, Mrs. E. J. Coyle, Sr., Perry; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Vivian, Perry; and brother Ed J. Coyle, Jr., Pawnee.<\/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\/13591"}],"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=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13591\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}