{"id":16178,"date":"2020-03-06T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=16178"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:42:41","slug":"obituary-king-leo-edman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=16178","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; King, Leo Edman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 44<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1944 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<br \/>Leo Edman King<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; was inducted into the navy as a volunteer February 20 of this year and at present is studying navigation in the Hawaiian islands.<\/p>\n<p>Leo is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George King, 1112 Elm, and was born in Clovis, New Mexico, February 24, 1926.  He was a member of the student council from 1942 until his induction into the navy.  Leo was also a member of the Alpha Eta organization, DeJolay, the Baptist church, and active in basketball and football in Perry high school.<\/p>\n<p>He received his grade schooling in Pawhuska, Pawnee and in Perry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Leo Edman King<\/h1>\n<h3>February 24, 1926 &#8211; September 19, 2009<\/h3>\n<p>Leo King, 83, of Paris, Arkansas, died Saturday, September 19, 2009, in Booneville, AR.<\/p>\n<p>He was born February 24, 1926, in Clovis, New Mexico, to Mr. &#038; Mrs. George King.<\/p>\n<p>He was a Safety Engineer for Penrod Oil Company in Oklahoma for many years. <\/p>\n<p>Leo was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Eleanor (Christy) King; one son, Butch King and a sister, Joann Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>Leo is survived by one daughter, J. J. Hurley (Bill), of Paris, AR.<\/p>\n<p>Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Roller Funeral Home, Paris, AR.<\/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\/16178"}],"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=16178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16180,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16178\/revisions\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}