{"id":27402,"date":"2025-02-06T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27402"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:20:33","slug":"obituary-king-ruth-godfrey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27402","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; King, Ruth (Godfrey)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1927 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927_King_Ruth_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Godfrey\" \/><br \/>Ruth Godfrey<\/h2>\n<p>Perryscope Staff; Glee Club, Girls Reserve; Red Hots; Blue Curtain Dramatic Club, Debate; Scopics; Peroma Staff; Honor Society, Citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is gentle, she is shy,<br \/>\nbut there is mischief in her eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Ruth (Godfrey) King<\/h1>\n<h3>May 6, 1909 &#8211; November 20, 1978<\/h3>\n<p>Ruth King, 69, of Grand Prairie, Texas, died on November 20, 1978, at the Grand Prairie Community Hospital, where she had been a patient for six years with Huntington&#8217;s chorea.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Oklahoma on May 6, 1909, she was the daughter of Frank Edwin and Silva Sarah Loveall Godfrey. She graduated from Perry high school in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>On October 6, 1929, she and Christy W. King were married in Enid.  They were blessed with two sons, Christy and Herbert, and one daughter, Sylvia. The family lived in many places including Lavern and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Boise, Idaho; Denver, Colorado; and Grand Prairie, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Burial will be in the Southland Memorial Park, Grand Prairie, Texas.<\/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\/27402"}],"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=27402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30274,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27402\/revisions\/30274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}