{"id":3117,"date":"2015-11-19T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3117"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:51:22","slug":"obituary-brigham-everett-ray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3117","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Brigham, Everett Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1959_Brigham_Everett.jpg\" alt=\"Everett Ray Brigham\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1959<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1959 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1959_Brigham_Everett_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Everett Brigham\" \/><br \/>Everett Brigham<\/h2>\n<p>Wrestling 56-57; F.F.A. 56-59.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1959 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Everett Ray Brigham, 17, plans to enroll at Oklahoma State university after graduation from Perry high school.  He lives with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Feken, route one, Perry.  Born Nov. 29, 1941, at Enid, he also has attended school at Pond Creek.  He has been a member of the Future Farmers of America the pat four years and took part in wrestling in 1955-57.  Everett likes to spend his spare time hunting and American history is his favorite subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Everett Ray Brigham<\/h1>\n<h3>November 29, 1941 &#8211; November 8, 2015<\/h3>\n<p>Everett R. Brigham, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. He was 73 years old. <\/p>\n<p>Born on Nov. 29, 1941, he was the son of Samuel and Caroline Wehrman Brigham. He grew up around Grant, Kay and Noble county areas. He graduated from Perry High School in 1959 and attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. <\/p>\n<p>After attending college, Everett moved to a farm west of Tonkawa and began working for Wetmore Pulverizer and Machinery in Tonkawa where he met Glenette Fitch. He and Glenette were married on Oct. 3, 1963. They had one daughter, Audra Ann.<\/p>\n<p>He served in the Oklahoma National Guard 45th Infantry Division and trained with the 101st Airborne. He worked for Conoco from 1964 until he retired in 1992. He and his good friend, James Earl Murphy, grew up together and enjoyed hunting and fishing together. They became lifelong friends. While working together at Conoco, Everett and Homer Woolley became close friends and enjoyed spending time together long after retirement.<\/p>\n<p>He loved Texas Longhorn and Oklahoma State Football as well as Perry wrestling. He will be greatly missed by so many family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his wife, Glenette; daughter, Audra Kingery; son-in-law, Joseph Kingery; and grandson, T-Joe Kingery, all of Tonkawa. <\/p>\n<p>A funeral service will be held Thursday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m. at Tonkawa Bible Church.  He will be laid to rest at the Tonkawa IOOF 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\/3117"}],"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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30942,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3117\/revisions\/30942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}