{"id":3967,"date":"2016-04-18T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3967"},"modified":"2025-03-30T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:04:27","slug":"obituary-woodruff-raymond-michael","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3967","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Woodruff, Raymond Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1917<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Raymond Michael Woodruff<\/h1>\n<h3>May 12, 1895 &#8211; August 13, 1976<\/h3>\n<p>Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday for Raymond M. Woodruff, 81, a resident of the Oklahoma Veterans center at Sulphur, who died at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the center.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Don Harnden, pastor of the United Presbyterian church, will officiate at services at Parker Funeral home. Burial will be at Grace Hill cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>A former Perry resident, Woodruff was born May 12, 1895, at Colby, Kan., and came to Perry in 1900. He was a 1917 graduate of Perry high school and was associated with the Woodruff Merchantile company along with his father, the late B. J. Woodruff. The business was located in a building on the north side of the square that now houses Zorba&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Woodruff served in the Army Air Force during World War I, stationed at Love Field at Dallas, Tex. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and the American Legion. In more recent years, Woodruff was a clothing salesman in Tulsa and Fort Worth, Tex. He retired in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. John Mugler and Mrs. A. L. Ebersole, both of Perry; three nieces, Mrs. John Dunn, Woodward; Mrs. Payton S. Carnes Jr., Wichita Falls, Tex.; and Mrs. Chesley K. Wood, Austin, Tex.; and one nephew, Sam Ebersole, Perry.\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\/3967"}],"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=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28221,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3967\/revisions\/28221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}