{"id":14574,"date":"2019-07-03T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14574"},"modified":"2019-07-03T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T01:02:47","slug":"obituary-merrell-john-grisham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14574","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Merrell, John Grisham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1927<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1927 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927_Merrell_John_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"John Merrell\" \/><br \/>John Merrell<\/h2>\n<p>Orchestra, Glee Club, Football, Operetta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he ever falls in love, great will be the fall thereof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>John Grisham Merrell<\/h1>\n<h3>April 8, 1910 &#8211; April 2, 1964<\/h3>\n<p>John Merrell, Tulsa and formerly of Perry, died Thursday in Tulsa where he had lived the past several years.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral was a 2 p.m. Saturday at the Whisenhunt funeral home at Tulsa with burial at a Tulsa cemetery.  <\/p>\n<p>Merrell was born on April 8, 1910, the son of Charles Durham and Mary Alice Maude (Mateer) Merrell.  He graduated from Perry high school in 1927 and attended 3 years of college.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, 1934, he and Martha Virginia Conarty were married.  She preceded him in death in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as a mail carrier and deputy in the Noble county treasurer&#8217;s office before moving to Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>Among survivors are his mother, Mrs. C. D. Merrell, Wyandotte, a former long-time Perry school teacher, and a sister, Mrs. Alice Lamb, also of Wyandotte.<\/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\/14574"}],"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=14574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14579,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14574\/revisions\/14579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}