{"id":7026,"date":"2016-12-22T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7026"},"modified":"2016-12-22T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:53:38","slug":"obituary-curtis-william-raymond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7026","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Curtis, William Raymond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1924<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1924 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1924_Curtis_William_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Curtis\" \/><br \/>Raymond Curtis<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Ideas are like beards; men do not have them till they grow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>William Raymond Curtis<\/h1>\n<h3>December 7, 1905 &#8211; February 9, 1973<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffWilliam Raymond Curtis, 67, a native Noble countyan of northwest of Perry, died at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Baptist Memorial hospital following a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist church of Lucien. Officiating will be Rev. LaBron Free with burial under the direction of the Newton Funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis was born Dec. 7, 1905, on a farm northwest of Perry. He lived in Noble county all his life with the exception of seven years spent at Stonewall. He was a member of the United Methodist church of Lucien.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis served as a member of the board of directors of the Farmers Exchange cooperative of Perry for more than 20 years. He served as the board president most of that time.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, he was chosen as the outstanding director of a cooperative by Farmers Cooperative Grain Dealers association. He had been a director for the Noble county conservation district and served on the precinct election board of Warren Valley precinct for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The survivors include his wife, Thelma, of the home northwest of Perry; one son, Ronnie Curtis, northwest of Perry; three daughters, Mrs. Donna Kapka, Bartlesville, and Mrs. Gail Payne and Mrs. Kay Wall, both of Edmond; and eight granddaughters.\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\/7026"}],"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=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7026\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}