{"id":7149,"date":"2017-01-08T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7149"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:25:32","slug":"obituary-mills-richard-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7149","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Mills, Richard Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1950<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1950 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1950_Mills_Richard_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Mills\" \/><br \/>Richard Mills<\/h2>\n<p>\ufeffF.F.A. 49-50, Home Room Vice\u2014President 49-50.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1950 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Richard Mills has been a member of the Perry Future Farmers of America one year, but says his plans for the future are indefinite.  He was born in Perry Nov. 21, 1930, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Mills, 723 Ninth street.  His grade school years were spent in Perry but he attended high schools in Hobbs, N. M., and Brownfield, Texas, before enrolling at PHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Richard Henry Mills<\/h1>\n<h3>November 21, 1929 &#8211; August 22, 1983<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffRichard Henry Mills, 52, 1404 Eighth street, was found dead at his home early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mills was born in Perry, Nov. 21, 1929, the son of H. G. and Opal (Hughes) Mills. He was a graduate of Perry high school. He and Dixie Myers were married Oct. 2, 1954, at Stillwater.<\/p>\n<p>Mills served with the United States Army in Korea and was a mechanic with the state department of transportation for 26 years. He was a member of the First Baptist church.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Mrs. Mills, of the home, survivors include three sons, Kevin Ray Mills, Wewoka; Kelly Wyn Mills, of the U.S. Navy; and Khris Lyn Mills, Perry; his mother, Opal Mills, Perry; and three grandchildren. <\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his father and one brother.<\/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\/7149"}],"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=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26090,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7149\/revisions\/26090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}