{"id":14048,"date":"2019-06-11T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14048"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:08:51","slug":"obituary-edwards-bessie-busch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14048","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Edwards, Bessie (Busch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1911<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Bessie (Busch) Edwards<\/h1>\n<h3>April 25, 1893 &#8211; September 13, 1981<\/h3>\n<p>Mrs. Bessie Edwards, 88, area pioneer, died at 7:10 a.m. Sunday at Green Valley Nursing center where she had resided since Feb. 21, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Parker Funeral chapel with Rev. R. Fred Selby, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiating.  Burial will be at Grace Hill cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Edwards was born April 25, 1893, to Frederick and Elizabeth Busch at Norman and came to this area in 1894.  She attended Perry schools and Wichita university.  <\/p>\n<p>She and Harry R. Edwards were married February 27, 1914.  He died in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>A 70-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, she served as state secretary of the organization for 30 years.  Mrs. Edwards was a member of the First Baptist church.<\/p>\n<p>Among survivors are one son, Bill Edwards, Orlando; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her husband, her parents preceded her 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\/14048"}],"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=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14048\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}