{"id":18678,"date":"2020-08-26T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18678"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:06:08","slug":"obituary-postelwait-john-wesley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18678","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Postelwait, John Wesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1944<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1944 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<br \/>John Postelwait<\/h2>\n<p>Pvt. John Postelwait, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Postelwait, 727 Seventh, is serving somewhere in the Pacific area with an anti-aircraft unit.<\/p>\n<p>John was born at Painesville, Ohio, August 12, 1925.  He attended grade school at Painesville, and received his high school training at Freemont and at Perry.  He is a member of the Baptist church, and after his discharge from military service, he plans to take up diesel engineering.  <\/p>\n<p>John entered the service November 3, 1943, and received his basic military training at Camp Callan, Calif.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>John Wesley Postelwait<\/h1>\n<h3>12 August 12, 1925 &#8211; October 3, 1981<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffJohn Postelwait, 56, Arkansas City, formerly of Perry, died at noon Saturday after an illness of several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Postelwait, the son of Charles and Hazel (Scott) Postelwait, was born Aug. 12, 1925, at Painesville, Ohio. He grew up in the Perry community and was a graduate of Perry high school. He and Vada Sloan were married at Perry March 23, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Postelwait was an employee of the United States Postal Service at Arkansas City. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, serving with the United States Army. He was a member of the Crescent lodge, AF&#038;AM, the Scottish Rite Temple, the Midian Shrine, Order of Eastern Star and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Mrs. Postelwait, of the home, survivors include three sons, John and Dale, both of Arkansas City; and Mark, of Dickinson, N.D.; a daughter, Carla, of Topeka, Kan.; his father, Charles Postelwait, Perry; a brother, Richard Postelwait, Perry; three sisters, Mrs. Ellsworth Sunderland, Mrs. Dorothy Pontious and Mrs. Barbara Blair, all of Enid; and six grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He was a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. William Sloan, Perry; and a brother-in-law of Leo Sloan, also of Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Rindt-Erdman Memorial chapel at Arkansas City with Rev. William E. Bowles officiating. Masonic graveside rites will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mt. Carmel cemetery, north of Perry.  Memorials may be given to the Shriners Crippled Children&#8217;s Hospital.\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\/18678"}],"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=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18680,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18678\/revisions\/18680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}