{"id":5614,"date":"2016-10-14T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=5614"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:31:09","slug":"obituary-chastain-lawanda-lear","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=5614","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Chastain, LaWanda Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1944<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1944 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<br \/>La Wanda L. Chastain<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chastain, Perry, was born in Maramec, November 8, 1926, and attended school at Quay, Yale, and Perry.<\/p>\n<p>LaWanda has been an active student in band, having been in band at Quay and Yale as well as a member of the Perry band for two years.<\/p>\n<p>She intends to enter Oklahoma A and M. college at Stillwater this fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>LaWanda Lear Chastain<\/h1>\n<h3>November 8, 1926 &#8211; March 7, 2000<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffLaWanda Lear Chastain, 73, died March 7, 2000 in the Manor Care Nursing Home in Oklahoma City, OK. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday, March 10, 2000, at the First Baptist Church in Geary.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Lonnie Rutherford will officiate and burial will be at the Geary Cemetery under the direction of Turner Funeral Home of Geary.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Chastain was born November 8, 1926 at Miramack, OK, the daughter of John R. and Mary Belle Stover Chastain. She graduated from Perry High School in 1944 and from Oklahoma A &#038; M College in Stillwater, OK. She worked for Mobile Oil Co., Northwest Bank and retired from Liberty Bank in Oklahoma City, as vice-president of the International Division. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include one brother and sister-in-law, Johnny and Reba Chastain, Chickasha; two nephews and their wives: Mark R. and Julie Chastain, Mustang; and Kevin and Sarah Chastain, Dalton, WI; three great nephews: John, Michael and Stephen Chastain; and two great nieces: Jordan and Dakota Chastain, Mustang; and a number of aunts and uncles and cousins.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Mary Chastain, and a nephew, John R. Chastain.\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\/5614"}],"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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28185,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5614\/revisions\/28185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}