{"id":8991,"date":"2017-08-13T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T20:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8991"},"modified":"2019-05-12T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:55:29","slug":"obituary-gatewood-emmarie-ritthaler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=8991","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Gatewood, Emmarie (Ritthaler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1927<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1927 Peroma<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927_Gatewood_Emma_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Marie Ritthaler\" \/><br \/>Emma Marie Ritthaler<\/h2>\n<p>Girls Reserve; Red Hot.<br \/>\n&#8220;Always ready for a good time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Emmarie (Ritthaler) Gatewood<\/h1>\n<h3>December 6, 1909 &#8211; January 20, 1994<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffFormer Perry resident Emma Marie (Ritthaler) Gatewood, 83, Wyandotte, Okla., died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at the Miami, Okla., hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral was Monday at the First Christian church at Seneca, Mo. Burial was at the Seneca cemetery, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.  A memorial has been established to benefit Home of Hope in Vinita.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Gatewood was born at Perry, Dec. 6, 1910, the daughter of Frank F. and Alice (Barnes) Ritthaler. She attended local schools and was a graduate of Perry high school and Central State university.<\/p>\n<p>She and Raymond Gatewood of the Perry community were married on May 10, 1931. Mrs. Gatewood taught in Perry area schools prior to her marriage and later was a special education teacher at Vinita for 14 years. She was a member of the First Christian church of Perry prior to transferring membership to the church in Wyandotte.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her husband, who is a nursing home resident in Seneca, survivors include five sons, Tom, Jim and Billy, all of the Wyandotte area, Larry, of Miami, Okla., and Bob, of Houston; two daughters, Alice Boman, Springfield, Mo., and Linda Foster, Drumright; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, one brother, Richard Ritthaler, Elk City; and a sister, Mary Ellen Smeller, Austin, Texas.\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\/8991"}],"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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13633,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8991\/revisions\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}