{"id":17188,"date":"2020-04-01T01:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=17188"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T22:29:04","slug":"obituary-ransom-helen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=17188","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Ransom, Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1908<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Helen Ransom<\/h1>\n<h3>December 14, 1888 &#8211; July 9, 1955<\/h3>\n<p>Funeral services for Miss Helen Ransom, 66, who died at her home, 409 North Seventh, Ponca City, Oklahoma, about 7:45 a.m. Saturday, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in the Gill Funeral Home Chapel.  Miss Ransom, who had been in ill health the past few years, had been critically ill the past 10 days. <\/p>\n<p>Officiating at the services will be the Rev. Charlie W. Shedd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>She was born Dec. 14, 1888, in Ithaca. N. Y., to Charles and Edith (Holt) Ransom. When a small child she moved to Oklahoma with her parents. Her father for a number of years was a prominent lawyer and rancher in the Perry vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>She graduated from Perry high school in 1908 and continued her education at the normal school in Edmond. A member of the 1914 graduating class of the University of Kansas, Miss Ransom served as an English teacher in Oklahoma schools 15 years, 11 of which she was a member of the McAlester High School faculty. <\/p>\n<p>She returned to the Ponca City several years ago to care for her invalid mother. Miss Ransom was a member of the Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by a sister, Mrs. A. H. Heinze, west of the city, and a niece, Mrs. Jack Alexander of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Her father and one brother, Walter Ransom, preceded her in death.\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\/17188"}],"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=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17296,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17188\/revisions\/17296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}