{"id":29636,"date":"2025-06-27T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=29636"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:44:25","slug":"obituary-parker-james-o","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=29636","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Parker, James O."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1935<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>James O. Parker<\/h1>\n<h3>May 23, 1917 &#8211; July 13, 1958<\/h3>\n<p>James O. Parker, 41, of 807 N. Emporia, Wichita, Kansas, died Sunday in St. Francis Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He had been a resident a month, having moved here from Hutchinson, Kansas.  He had been ill most of his life.  He died of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Oklahoma on May 23, 1917, he was the son of C. E. and Edna Parker.  He graduated from Perry high school in 1935. <\/p>\n<p>He was a musician and a music teacher.  He studied music at Juilliard School of Music, New York City, and American Conservatory, Chicago, Ill.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Mabel; two brothers, R. C., Enid, Oklahoma, and Clay, 1021 S. Topeka, Kansas; and four sisters, Mrs. Erma Adams, Palmdale, California, Mrs. Christine Bass, Corpus Christi, Texas, Mrs. Jessie Burns, Hutchinson, Kansas, and Mrs. Dorothy McCoy, McPherson, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in St. James Episcopal Church, Wichita, Kansas.  The Rev. James Flye, assistant pastor, will officiate.  Burial will be in Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.<\/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\/29636"}],"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=29636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29641,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29636\/revisions\/29641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}