{"id":29224,"date":"2025-05-21T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=29224"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T20:37:45","slug":"obituary-shea-john-jacob-jasper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=29224","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Shea, John Jacob Jasper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1925<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1924 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1925_Shea_John_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Jap Shea\" \/><br \/>Jap Shea<\/h2>\n<p>Philomathean, Junior Play &#8217;24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>John Jacob Jasper Shea<\/h1>\n<h3>December 5, 1902 &#8211; October 28, 1971<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffJohn Shea, 68, 1102 Sixth street, Perry, died at 12:10 a.m. Saturday in Perry Memorial hospital following a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kingston, Oklahoma on December 5, 1902, he was the son of William and Mary Ovelena &#8220;Lena&#8221; Harrison Shea.  He graduated from Perry high school in 1925. <\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 29, 1927, he was married in Perry to Gladys Knori, who survives. He had worked in the oil field since a young man, and had served as a driller and was in the production department from 1957 until 1969. He moved to Perry in 1918 from Sumner.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors in addition to his wife include one daughter, Mrs. Harold (Evelyn) Meeks, Stillwater; one son, Bob Shea, Haskell, Texas; seven sisters, Mrs. Dovie Webber, Mrs. Nell Wie-derkehr and Miss Daisy Shea of Perry; Mrs. Maggie Casparis, Red Rock; Mrs. Dorthy DeVil-biss, Austin, Texas; Mrs. Bestina Uhl, Midland, Texas; and Mrs. Virginia Burton, Tulsa; and seven grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be Monday in Newton chapel, Perry, with Rev. Don Harnden, pastor of First Prebyterian church, officiating. Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.\n<\/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\/29224"}],"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=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29227,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29224\/revisions\/29227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}