{"id":2686,"date":"2015-10-28T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=2686"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:09:17","slug":"obituary-estes-gerald-lee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=2686","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Estes, Gerald Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1957<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1957 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1957_Estes_Gerald_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Gerald Estes\" \/><br \/>Gerald Estes<\/h2>\n<p>Wrestling 54-57, F. F. A. 54-57, Baseball 55-57, Basketball 54-55.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1957 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Future plans are undecided for Gerald Lee Estes, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Estes, route 3, Perry.  He was born Dec. 7, 1937, in Ponca City, and attended Round Grove grade school and Washington grade school in Blackwell before coming to Perry.  He has been active in sports, participating in wrestling four years, baseball two years and football one year.  In addition, he has been a member of the Future Farmers of America three years.  His favorite subject is English, and fishing and hunting are his hobbies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Gerald Lee Estes<\/h1>\n<h3>December 7, 1937 &#8211; April 29, 2010<\/h3>\n<p>Gerald Lee Estes, 72, died on April 29, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p>Born on December 7, 1937, he was the son of Walter J. and Ethel (Bishop) Estes. Following his graduation from high school, he went to work at a Stillwater grocery store. Later Gerald worked at Ditch Witch in Perry.<\/p>\n<p>He and Loretta &#8220;Sue&#8221; Ham were married on November 19, 1967 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>His hobbies were fishing, playing cards, and watching college football.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding him in death were: his parents, Walter and Ethel; brother, Bill Estes; sister, Maxine Gramley; two nephews, Richard and DeWayne Estes; and one niece, Audrey Bench.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his wife Sue; brother Roy and Margaret Estes; brother-in-law, Richard Fagan and wife Betty (Ham) Fagan; sister-in-law, Carolyn (Ham) Murray and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 3, 2010 at the Strode Funeral Home Chapel in Stillwater, with Reverend Michael L. Chace officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to a charity of your choice.<\/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\/2686"}],"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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30099,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2686\/revisions\/30099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}