{"id":13990,"date":"2019-06-08T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13990"},"modified":"2019-06-08T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:45:22","slug":"obituary-krisher-elvin-l","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=13990","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Krisher, Elvin Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1940<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1940 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1940_Krisher_Elvin_pdj.jpg\" alt=\"Elvin Krisher\" \/><br \/>Elvin Krisher<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; 19 years old, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Krisher, route 2, Perry. He was born March 13, 1921 in Walters, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Elvin played football in Perry, playing the position of right halfback in 1938-39 and 1939-40 and played center on the high school basketball team in 1936-37, 1937-38,\tand 1939-40.<\/p>\n<p>He is reporter for the Future Farmers of America chapter in the Perry school and has been for two years. His hobbies include swimming, hunting, horseback riding and fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Next year he plans too attend the Cameron Junior Agriculture college and study farming.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Elvin Lawrence Krisher<\/h1>\n<h3>March 13, 1921 &#8211; September 5, 1949<\/h3>\n<p>Final services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the First Presbyterian church for Elvin L. Krisher, 28-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Krisher, 1306 Delaware street, who died Monday evening in a Dermott, Arkansas hospital after an illness of only 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. R. E. Dreger, pastor of the church, will conduct last rites, assisted by Rev. David Thomas of Stillwater.  Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery under direction of the Newton funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>Krisher was born March 13, 1921, in Walters, Oklahoma, and came to Perry in 1922 with his parents.  A 1940 graduate of Perry high school, he played football and basketball with the Maroons during his high school career.<\/p>\n<p>He enlisted in the naval air corps July 24, 1942, and served 38 months in the southwest Pacific before being discharged.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition to his parents, survivors are his wife, Doris, of McGehee, Ark.; a son, Edwin, by a previous marriage, of Lawton; a brother, Bob, of Valier, Mont.; and two sisters, Betty June and Patsy Lou Krisher of Perry.  One sister preceded him in death.<\/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\/13990"}],"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=13990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13994,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13990\/revisions\/13994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}