{"id":14010,"date":"2019-06-10T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14010"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:48:56","slug":"obituary-matthews-jr-david-crockett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14010","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Matthews, Jr., David Crockett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1963_Matthews_David.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. David Crockett Matthews, Jr.\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1963<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1963 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1963_Matthews_David_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"David Matthews\" \/><br \/>David Matthews<\/h2>\n<p>Football &#8217;60-&#8217;63, Tri-Captain &#8217;62-&#8217;63, Wrestling &#8217;60-&#8217;63, Junior Play &#8217;61-62, Annual King &#8217;63.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Dr. David Crockett Matthews, Jr.<\/h1>\n<h3>February 25, 1945 &#8211; September 27, 1982<\/h3>\n<p>David C. Matthews Jr., 37, a native of Perry, has been killed in the crash of a private plane which he was piloting.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was radiologist at a hospital at Mamouth Lakes, Calif., where he lived. Local friends understand funeral services were held in California. A memorial service is planned in Perry next week.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was the son of David C. Matthews of Edmond, long-time attorney in Perry. He had two sisters, Mrs. Richard (Frances) Little of Norman and Mrs. Alan (Jeanie) Vance of Edmond.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was born Feb. 25, 1945, in Anadarko.  He was a 1963 graduate of Perry high school. He played football for the Maroons 1959-63; wrestled 1958-63 and was a member of the Lettermen&#8217;s club. He was a Maroon tri-captain 1962-63.<\/p>\n<p>He received his BS degree from Oklahoma State university and his DDS from Baylor university School of Dentistry before entering the Health Sciences College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>During his senior year he served in cardiology at Oklahoma City&#8217;s Presbyterian hospital. He received his MD in 1975 and served three years rotating internship at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances Matthews.\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\/14010"}],"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=14010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15082,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14010\/revisions\/15082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}