{"id":14098,"date":"2019-06-13T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14098"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:08:52","slug":"obituary-gillogly-vedia-mae-wakeman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14098","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Gillogly, Vedia Mae (Wakeman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1941<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1941 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941_Gillogly_Vedia_pdj.jpg\" alt=\"Vedia Mae Wakeman\" \/><br \/>Vedia Mae Wakeman<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; age 17, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wakeman.  She was born in Poteau, Okla., December 20, 1923.<\/p>\n<p>She has attended school in Springfield and Lebanon, Mo., and Affton high school in St. Louis in addition to Perry high school.  <\/p>\n<p>She served as president of her home room and as secretary and treasurer of the Red Hot Pep organization and was a member of the student council, band, Queen Esther Society, and glee club.<\/p>\n<p>She received a student council honor pin and an award from the high school pep organization.  Hobbies are dancing and collecting souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>Vedia plans to work during the summer and attend college in the fall.  She expects to be an accountant.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Vedia Mae (Wakeman) Gillogly<\/h1>\n<h3>December 20, 1923 &#8211; June 22, 2002<\/h3>\n<p>Vedia Mae Gillogly, 78, died June 22, 2002, of multiple myeloma in McAlester, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Born December 20, 1923, to Charles Emmett and Ollie Mae (Crockett) Wakeman in Poteau, Oklahoma, she graduated from Perry high school in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>On November 9, 1941, she and Russell Lee Gillogly were married.  They were blessed to have shared 60 beautiful years together.<\/p>\n<p>She worked as an accountant and enjoyed ceramics.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding her in death were her parents and one sister, Evelyn &#8220;Winifred&#8221; (Wakeman) Lindley.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her husband, Russell; daughters and son-in-law, Marsha Green, of McAlester, Oklahoma, and Sandra Lee and Don Bell, of Grand Junction, Colorado; and a grandson, Rusty Matsenbaugh; and a brother, Donald Lee Wakeman in Gainesville, Florida.<\/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\/14098"}],"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=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14111,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14098\/revisions\/14111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}