Perry Wallace Oakes,
712 Wilson St., died this morning (Feb. 14, 1974) at Newman Memorial County Hospital in Emporia, Kansas.
Mr. Oakes was born Feb. 5, 1887 in Filley, Mo., the son of George W. and Jessie E. Allen Oakes and he was married to Irene C. Coble on June 30, 1909 in Newton. He had been a member of the Southwestern Lumbermen’s Association for many years and he had been the receipient of a Silver Beaver Award in recognition of his years of volunteer work in the Boy Scout program. Mr. Oakes was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Emporia and he had been a member of the Emporia Kiwanis Club. Mr. Oakes had managed a retail lumber business in Wichita for a number of years and was associated with the Credit Bureau in Emporia before he retired.
Mr. Oakes was preceded in death by one brother, Harry, and he is survived by his wife, of the home; two sons, Kermit W., of 1502 Berkeley
Road in Emporia, and Erie D., of Phoenix, Ariz.; one half-brother, LeRoy Brown, who lives in Scotland; one half-sister, Mrs. W. E. Chambers,
Rock Island, Ill.; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services
will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 16, 1974) in Roberts-Blue-Barnett Chapel. They will be
conducted by the Rev. Judd Henry Jones,
Pastor of the First
United Methodist Church, and the Rev. David W. Isaac, Pastor of the Westminster
United Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in
Greenwood Cemetery in Newton. (c) HCGS. The Emporia Gazette, February
14, 1974.
