{"id":5568,"date":"2016-10-11T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=5568"},"modified":"2024-12-07T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T18:09:45","slug":"obituary-lau-alberta-may-lighty-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=5568","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Lau, Alberta May (Lighty)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1923_Lau_May.jpg\" alt=\"Alberta May (Lighty) Lau\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1923<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1923 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1923_Lau_May_yearbook-1.jpg\" alt=\"May Lighty\" \/><br \/>May Lighty<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Has her opinion on everything but keeps it to herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Alberta May (Lighty) Lau<\/h1>\n<h3>July 28, 1903 &#8211; November 2, 1998<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffAlberta May Lau, 95, formerly of Perry, died Monday, Nov. 2, 1998, at Community Care of Laramie at Laramie, WY.<\/p>\n<p>Born near Piper City, IL on July 28, 1903, she was the daughter of Edgar H. and Ida May (Stanford) Lighty. The family moved to a farm near Lucien in 1907. In 1915, the family moved to Perry where her father was employed by the U.S. Postal Service for many years.  <\/p>\n<p>On June 20, 1927, she and John F. Lau were married. Most of their lives, they lived on a farm one-half mile west of Perry and together they managed the Farmer&#8217;s Exchange Grocery and Feed Store for many years.<\/p>\n<p>After they retired, Mrs. Lau worked several years as a hospital nurse&#8217;s aide. In 1969, she and her husband moved to Perry.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and three brothers and two sisters-in-law, Roy and Lillie Lighty, Ivan and Nadine Lighty and Glenn Lighty.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Don Bird, Laramie; one sister, Ruby Morrow, Perry; two granddaughters, Debi O&#8217;Donnell and her husband, Greg, Laramie, and Donna Crandall and her husband, Gary, Pine Bluffs, WY; five great-grandchildren, Chad and Cassidy O&#8217;Donnell and Shon, Jennifer and Megan Crandall; a number of sisters and brothers-in-law and a very dear friend, Elizabeth Sims.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral was Friday afternoon at the First United Methodist Church in Perry. Rev. Tolbert Dill officiated. Burial was in Grace Hill cemetery.  A memorial was established to benefit the First United Methodist Church, 501 Seventh Street, Perry, OK 73077.\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\/5568"}],"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=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26585,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5568\/revisions\/26585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}