{"id":27752,"date":"2025-03-07T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27752"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:23:45","slug":"obituary-mcmeekin-wilbur-maynard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27752","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; McMeekin, Wilbur Maynard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1924<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Wilbur Maynard McMeekin<\/h1>\n<h3>April 7, 1904 &#8211; September 8, 1940<\/h3>\n<p>Wilbur M. McMeekin, 36, Portland, Texas, was fatally injured Saturday night while working at an oil field lease west of Aransas Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Perry, Oklahoma, on April 7, 1904, he was the son of James C. and Mary Dell &#8220;May&#8221; Trump McMeekin. He graduated from Perry high in 1924.  <\/p>\n<p>On September 29, 1928, he and Dolly Hamilton were married in Maud, Oklahoma.  To this union three sons were born.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his death he was working as a drilling inspector for Manahan Drilling Company.  <\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his widow; three sons, James Leroy, Paul Maynard, and Joey Milton McMeekin, all of the home; and three sisters, Ethel Dando of Baytown, Texas, Olive Horne of Tulsa, and Frances Gilbert of Stillwater.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 3 o&#8217;clock this afternoon at Cage-Mills Funeral Home with the Rev. M. F. Louis and the Rev. J. P. Graham officiating.  Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Corpus Christi, 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\/27752"}],"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=27752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27753,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27752\/revisions\/27753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}