{"id":15527,"date":"2020-01-28T16:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=15527"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:34:23","slug":"obituary-skalenda-vernon-edward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=15527","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Skalenda, Vernon Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1955<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1955 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1955_Skalenda_Vernon_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Skalenda\" \/><br \/>Vernon Skalenda<\/h2>\n<p>F.F.A. 51-55, Wrestling 50-55, Class Treasurer 51-52, Class Vice-President 52-53.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Vernon Edward Skalenda<\/h1>\n<h3>August 9, 1937 &#8211; January 20, 1984<\/h3>\n<p>Former Perry resident, Vernon E. &#8220;Bo&#8221; Skalenda, 46, Woodward, died early Friday at a Woodward hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Wake service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Peter&#8217;s Catholic church at Woodward. Funeral mass will be at 9;30 a.m. Monday at the church. Rev. Mike Wheelahan, associate pastor, will officiate. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Monday at St. Rose of Lima Catholic cemetery at Perry under direction of Stecher Mortuary of Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>Skalenda was born at Perry Aug. 9, 1937, the son of William J. and Clara Skalenda. He was a graduate of Perry high school and attended the University of Oklahoma. He served three years in Germany with the United States Army.<\/p>\n<p>He and Carol Luis were married June 29,1963, in Perry. The couple moved to Woodward from Guymon six years ago. Skalenda was a member of the Catholic church, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, was a third degree knight, past grand knight and member of the parish council.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Mrs. Skalenda, survivors include one son, Pat, and two daughters. Tammy and Toni, all of Woodward; and three brothers, A. C. Skalenda, Wagoner; Ron Skalenda, Hobbs, N.M.; and Bernard Skalenda, Lebanon, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for heart research.<\/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\/15527"}],"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=15527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15528,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15527\/revisions\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}