{"id":14366,"date":"2019-06-24T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14366"},"modified":"2019-06-24T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:41:46","slug":"obituary-wetzel-leo-milton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14366","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Wetzel, Leo Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1920<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1920 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1920_Wetzel_Leo_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Yearbook Name\" \/><br \/>Yearbook Name<\/h2>\n<p>\ufeffFootball Captain &#8217;17-&#8217;20, Athenian &#8217;20, Basketball &#8217;20, Baseball &#8217;16, Track &#8217;16, Navy &#8217;17-&#8217;18-&#8217;19, Business Manager Peroma and Perry Scope &#8217;20, Glee Club &#8217;20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At managing he won his fame<br \/>\nHe played in every football game.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Leo Milton Wetzel<\/h1>\n<h3>September 22, 1897 &#8211; November 3, 1983 <\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffLeo Wetzel, 86, Morrison, long-time resident of the local area, died at 3 a.m. Thursday at Green Valley Nursing center where he was admitted Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Morrison Christian church. Rev. Mark Clemons will officiate. Burial will be at Grace Hill cemetery under direction of Parker Funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>Wetzel was born at Perry, Sept. 22, 1897. He was a 1920 graduate of Perry high school and attended Oklahoma State university. He and Nona Laughlin were married at Enid, April 28, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Wetzel served in the United States Navy during World War I and was a farmer-rancher until his retirement in 1975. <\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Morrison Christian church and the American Legion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Mrs. Wetzel, of the home, survivors include three daughters, Bonnie Wetzel, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Olan (Dorcas) Mercer, Mustang; and Mrs. Jan (Charlene) Wells, Oak Ridge, Term.; one son, James Wetzel, Denton, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Nell Coldiron of Hawaii; and Mrs. Luticia Cathey, Roswell, N.M.; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.\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\/14366"}],"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=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14369,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14366\/revisions\/14369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}