{"id":19081,"date":"2020-09-23T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=19081"},"modified":"2020-11-04T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T04:09:58","slug":"obituary-thomas-avis-lavona-crockett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=19081","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Thomas, Avis LaVona (Crockett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1945_Thomas_Avis.jpg\" alt=\"Avis LaVona (Crockett) Thomas\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1945<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1945 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1945_Thomas_Avis_younger.jpg\" alt=\"Avis LaVona (Crockett) Thomas\" \/><\/br>Avis Crockett<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; daughter of Mrs. Alta Crockett, 910 Cedar street, wants to attend junior college or business college upon finishing her work here.<\/p>\n<p>She is president of the Horizon club, worthy advisor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls, a member of RRF social club, Red Hots, student council, Perryscope staff and Teen Town.  She attends the Presbyterian church, of which she also is a member.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Avis LaVona (Crockett) Thomas<\/h1>\n<h3>June 5, 1927 &#8211; September 22, 2020<\/h3>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lifetime_Member_small.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left; margin-right: 5px;\"\/>Avis Thomas, 93, of College Station, Texas, passed away Tuesday, September 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Born June 5, 1927,  at 910 Cedar in Perry, she was the daughter of Vernon Oren and Alta May (Spillman) Crockett. She graduated from Perry High School in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>She met the love of her life, Keith Frederick Thomas, at a skating rink in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Keith was attending Oklahoma A&#038;M at the time. It was love at first sight. On August 11, 1946, they were married in Perry, and had four children, Karrol Gibbs, Beverly Henderson, Dennis Thomas and Joel Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Avis and Keith lived coast to coast during their married life. He preceded her in death in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Avis moved to College Station, Texas, to live with her daughter Beverly and husband Wes. She was very active in the BCS Newcomers Club. She loved playing cards. Avis was a member of Christ United Methodist Church and The Week By Week Sunday School class.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her sister, Norma Crockett McFarland.<\/p>\n<p>She leaves her four children, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements for her burial are pending at Forest Lawn, Long Beach, California. A memorial service in College Station will be in the near future.<\/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\/19081"}],"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=19081"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19397,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19081\/revisions\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}