{"id":8893,"date":"2017-08-08T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8893"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:26:52","slug":"obituary-pratt-floyd-sterling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8893","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Pratt, Floyd Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1937<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Floyd Sterling Pratt<\/h1>\n<h3>March 31, 1920 &#8211; April 16, 1976<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffFloyd &#8220;Snick&#8221; Pratt, 56, a former member of the Perry high school wrestling team, died April 16, 1976, at his home at Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Gloria, of the home; two sons, Tony, of the home; and Michael, Oklahoma City; a brother, Bill, Borger, Texas; five sisters, Mrs. Peggy Wheeler, Calhan, Colorado; Miss Catherine Pratt, Whittier, California; Mrs. Pat Pyle, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Judy Phillippe, Liberal, Kansas; and Mrs. Joan Harris, Dallas, Texas; and a number of nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pratt. He was a 1937 graduate of Perry high school. In addition to wrestling with the Perry high school team, he was a former member of the mat team at the University of Oklahoma.  He held the rank of major and was a battalion executive officer, anti-aircraft, in the European Theater during World War II. He was vice president of marketing with Kindler and Laucci, Insurance Brokers, of Los Angeles.\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\/8893"}],"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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30524,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8893\/revisions\/30524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}