{"id":28541,"date":"2025-04-02T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=28541"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:21:04","slug":"obituary-faw-faw-willie-marie-scott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=28541","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Faw Faw, Willie &#8220;Marie&#8221; (Scott)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1943_Faw-Faw_Marie.jpg\" alt='Willie \"Marie\" (Scott) Faw Faw' \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1943<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1943 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Moving to Perry five years ago, Marie Scott has received all her secondary education at the Maroon high school.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in Alabama and attended grade school there.  Marie is the 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Pearl Scott, 643 Delaware street.<\/p>\n<p>Her chief extracurricular activity at PHS has been the high school band.  Marie has not completed plans for the coming years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Willie &#8220;Marie&#8221; (Scott) Faw Faw<\/h1>\n<h3>September 5, 1924 &#8211; January 12, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>Willie Marie Scott Faw Faw, 96, died on January 12, 2021, in Norman, Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Goodwater, Alabama, on September 5, 1924, she was the daughter of Alfred M. and Alice Pearl McMullen Scott.  She was the baby of 7 children and was a loving daughter to her parents and siblings who have preceded her in death.<\/p>\n<p>On December 25, 1943, she married on an army base in Waynesville, Missouri, just before her fiance, Louis Faw Faw&#8217;s, battalion shipped out to the front.  She was a \u201cRosie the Riveter\u201d working at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City while her husband was fighting in the Ardennes, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in Belgium.  During their 73-year marriage they were blessed with six children. <\/p>\n<p>She had an endearing love of cats, flowers, Glenn Miller, and dancing. <\/p>\n<p>Preceding her in death were three children: Susan Blair, Shelly West, and Stan Faw Faw.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: her daughters, Sharon Luttrell and Sandra Schwartz; and son, Steven Faw Faw.<\/p>\n<p>Following services celebrating her life, she was buried at the Otoe-Missouria Cemetery in Red Rock, Oklahoma.  <\/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\/28541"}],"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=28541"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30578,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28541\/revisions\/30578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}