{"id":26923,"date":"2025-01-03T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=26923"},"modified":"2025-04-10T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:09:37","slug":"obituary-tatum-geraldine-rae-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=26923","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Tatum, Geraldine Rae (Wilson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1955_Tatum_-Geraldine.jpg\" alt=\"Geraldine Rae (Wilson) Tatum\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1955<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Geraldine Rae (Wilson) Tatum<\/h1>\n<h3>August 4, 1937 &#8211; June 26, 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Geraldine \u201cGeri\u201d Rae (Wilson) Tatum, 79 years old, went home to be with the Lord on June 26, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Born August 4, 1937, in Perry, OK, she was the daughter of Bruce James and Sybil Bernice (Ballard) Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>She met the love of her life, Stan, at a mutual friend\u2019s house. They were inseparable until Stan\u2019s job transferred him to Seattle, WA. From there he proposed to her over the phone, \u201cIf you want to get married, you better get up here.\u201d They were married on October 1, 1961, in Seattle. To this union 3 children were born, Jan, Jay and Jill. She was a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Geri enjoyed bowling, traveling, shopping or just taking a Sunday drive. Her pride and joy were her children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>She was a longtime member of Bryant Avenue Baptist Church of Oklahoma City where she enjoyed spending time with her church family.<\/p>\n<p>Preceding her in death were her parents, Bruce and Sybil Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include her husband of 55 years, Stan; children, Jan Pressley and husband Dale of Choctaw; Jay Tatum and fianc\u00e9e, Lisa of Oklahoma City; Jill Moss and husband Eddie of Deland, Florida; grandchildren, Shannon Pressley, Rhealynne Moss, Jamie Pressley, Alfredo Tatum, Paige Moss; sister, Jackie Canning; and a host of relatives and friends. <\/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\/26923"}],"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=26923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28649,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26923\/revisions\/28649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}