{"id":22874,"date":"2022-11-30T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=22874"},"modified":"2024-09-01T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T18:05:46","slug":"obituary-wilson-gary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=22874","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Wilson, Gary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1965_Wilson_Gary.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Lee Wilson\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1965<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1965 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1965_Wilson_Gary_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Wilson\" \/><br \/>Gary Wilson<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1965 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Gary Lee Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wilson, 901 Grove street, was born March 25, 1947, in Ponca City.  In addition to Perry schools, he attended Lawton high school the first semester of this year.  His plans for the future include enrolling at Oklahoma State Tech school, Okmulgee. Gary&#8217;s favorite subject is mathematics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Gary Lee Wilson<\/h1>\n<h3>March 25, 1947  &#8211;  November 21, 2022<\/h3>\n<p>Gary Lee Wilson, age 75, of Perry, passed away on November 21, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>He was born on March 25, 1947, in Ponca City, Oklahoma, to E. L. and Amelia Wilson. After attending Perry High School, Gary entered the Marine Corps in 1966 and he was a Veteran of the Vietnam War, serving 1969-1970. During his military service, he met the love of his life, Linda Stroo, marrying June 3, 1968. They enjoyed 54 years of marriage and together had two sons, Brian and Bruce Wilson. Gary was an employee of Ditch Witch for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his wife, Linda; son, Brian (Valorie) Wilson; grandsons, Aiden and Alex (Rachel) Wilson, four great-grandchildren; sister, Sandy Hentges (Harvey); and numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Gary is preceded in death by his parents, E.L. and Amelia Wilson, and son, Bruce Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of his life will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, November 28, 2022, at Trout Funeral Home of Perry.\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\/22874"}],"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=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24929,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22874\/revisions\/24929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}