{"id":20787,"date":"2021-05-12T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=20787"},"modified":"2021-06-19T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T01:16:46","slug":"obituary-wetzel-marie-lydia-ziesch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=20787","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Wetzel, Marie Lydia (Ziesch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1928<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Marie Lydia (Ziesch) Wetzel<\/h1>\n<h3>February 19, 1909 &#8211; October 14, 1977<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffMrs. Marie Lydia Wetzel, 68, retired Kay County schoolteacher, died early Friday in Highland nursing center, Ponca City, following a lengthy illness. <\/p>\n<p>Born February 19, 1909, at Newton, Kan., she was the daughter of Sigmund and Lydia (Bergstrasser) Ziesch.  She moved with her family as a girl to Perry, where she attended school. She graduated from Oklahoma A&#038;M College, now Oklahoma State University, at Stillwater. Following graduation, she taught school at Perry. <\/p>\n<p>She was married here to Vernon Wetzel on Aug. 15, 1948.  They resided in Ponca City and Mrs. Wetzel taught in Kay County schools until retiring in 1973. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Ponca City.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include her husband of the home on route 4, Ponca City; one brother, Carl Ziesch of Milwaukee, Wis.; and four sisters, Frieda Ziesch, Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Agnes Hiatt and Mrs. Emily Pett, both of Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Esther Hinrichs, Temple City, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Wetzel was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services were at 2:30 p.m. Monday in First Lutheran Church, Ponca City, with the Rev. Marvin Henschell, pastor, officiating. Burial was at Odd Fellow cemetery in Ponca City.  A memorial has been established in Mrs. Wetzel&#8217;s name at First Lutheran Church and contributions may be made through the church office.\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\/20787"}],"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=20787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21250,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20787\/revisions\/21250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}