{"id":27961,"date":"2025-03-25T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27961"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:05:15","slug":"obituary-webb-ottie-cecil-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27961","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Webb, Ottie Cecil, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1941<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1941 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1941_Webb_Ottie_pdj.jpg\" alt=\"Ottie Webb, Jr.\" \/><br \/>Ottie Webb, Jr.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Webb, was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>He attended schools in Fairfax, Eureka, Kan., Sumner, and has attended the Perry high school for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Hunting is his hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Ottie plans to go to Muskogee Business College to take a Civil Service course after his graduation from high school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Ottie Cecil Webb, Jr.<\/h1>\n<h3>February 26, 1923 &#8211; May 27, 1973<\/h3>\n<p>Ottie C. Webb, Jr., 50, of 110 S. Main in Galesburg, Illinois, died at St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital, Galesburg, Sunday, May 27, 1973, at 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Born at Fairfax, Oklahoma, on February 26, 1923, he was the son of Ottie C. and Inez Rebecca Gorton Webb.  <\/p>\n<p>He was a World War II veteran, serving with the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n<p>For the past seven years he lived in Abingdon, where he operated a shoe repair shop.<\/p>\n<p>He married Betty Cherovsky at Lincoln, Nebraska, June 9, 1960.  <\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his wife, Betty; mother, Inez Webb, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; seven sons, Ottie Webb III, James Webb and Ralph Webb, all of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bradley, Philippe, and Douglas Webb, all of Sioux City, Iowa, and Stephen Webb of Galesburg; two daughters, Mrs. Joyce Boling of California and Mrs. Sharon McBride of Sioux City; a brother, Henry Webb of Oklahoma City; and 11 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at Larson Funeral Home, Abingdon, Illinois, Wednesday at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Abingdon Cemetery.  <\/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\/27961"}],"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=27961"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30554,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27961\/revisions\/30554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}