{"id":17297,"date":"2020-04-10T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T23:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=17297"},"modified":"2020-04-10T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:06:12","slug":"obituary-scott-elmer-grant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=17297","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Scott, Elmer Grant"},"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>Elmer Grant Scott<\/h1>\n<h3>June 7, 1886 &#8211; December 26, 1949<\/h3>\n<p>Elmer G. Scott, 65, son of Mrs. Catherine Scott, 522 Ivanhoe street, was found dead near his home in Springdale, Arkansas, Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Newton funeral chapel Rev. W. C. Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate and burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>He was born June 7, 1886, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to John Henry and Catherine (Richardson) Scott.  He came to Perry with his parents and graduated from Perry high school in 1908.<\/p>\n<p>In 1912 he and Della Alice Barnett were married and settled in South Dakota.  <\/p>\n<p>During the war, he accepted a job with Bell Telephone company and later with Western Electric in Chicago as a radar specialist. He installed the radar equipment in the battleship, USS Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was a member of the Baptist church. <\/p>\n<p>Survivors, other than his mother, include one son, Delmer Scott of Encino, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Harry Shoop, northwest of Perry, Mrs. Charles Postelwaite, 824 Ivanhoe street, and Mrs. Earl Hughes of Enid; and two grandchildren. <\/p>\n<p>His wife preceded him in death in May of 1948.\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\/17297"}],"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=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17297\/revisions\/17300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}