{"id":8184,"date":"2021-08-20T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:59:38","slug":"raymond-lira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Lira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OVERBROOK \u2014 Raymond Lira, 84, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook.<\/p>\n<p>He was born Sept. 13, 1936, in Osage City, the son of Marcos Lira and Eleuteria Aguirre. He graduated from Osage City High School in 1955. He was a lifelong resident of Osage City.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond was joined in marriage to Mary Cisneros June 15, 1963, in Emporia. To this union two children were born, Gabriel and Louise.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as an auto mechanic, specializing in transmissions.\u00a0He worked at many auto businesses in Osage City through the years, retiring from Nordling Motors.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond was a member of St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church in Osage City.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; six brothers, Manuel, Donald, Marcelino, John, Pedro, and infant brother, Romanna; three sisters, Antonia, Guadalupe, and infant sister, Rosa Marie.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond will forever be remembered by his children, Louise Lira and Gabriel Lira, both of Osage City; two brothers, Sylvester Lira, Carbondale, and Henry Lira, Arizona; and many other relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, at St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church, Osage City. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26, at the church, with the rosary being recited at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made to St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church and sent in care of VanArsdale Funeral Chapel, 107 N. Sixth, Osage City, KS 66523.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be left for the family at VanArsdaleFS.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERBROOK \u2014 Raymond Lira, 84, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook. He was born Sept. 13, 1936, in Osage City, the son of Marcos Lira and Eleuteria Aguirre. He graduated from Osage City High School in 1955. He was a lifelong resident of Osage City. Raymond was joined in marriage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OVERBROOK \u2014 Raymond Lira, 84, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook. He was born Sept. 13, 1936, in Osage City, the son of Marcos Lira and Eleuteria Aguirre. He graduated from Osage City High School in 1955. He was a lifelong resident of Osage City. Raymond was joined in marriage to [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"854\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Herald-Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Herald-Chronicle\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Herald-Chronicle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/468e7f592b8da810bc986868bd439f35\"},\"headline\":\"Raymond Lira\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":238,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Obituaries\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/\",\"name\":\"Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":854},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/20\\\/raymond-lira\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Raymond Lira\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/Osage-County-herald-chonicle-logo-website-2019-retina.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/Osage-County-herald-chonicle-logo-website-2019-retina.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":170,\"caption\":\"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ochcnews\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/468e7f592b8da810bc986868bd439f35\",\"name\":\"Herald-Chronicle\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Herald-Chronicle\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.och-c.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/ochcnews\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/och-c.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/ochc\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","og_description":"OVERBROOK \u2014 Raymond Lira, 84, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook. He was born Sept. 13, 1936, in Osage City, the son of Marcos Lira and Eleuteria Aguirre. He graduated from Osage City High School in 1955. He was a lifelong resident of Osage City. Raymond was joined in marriage to [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/","og_site_name":"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews\/","article_published_time":"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":854,"url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Herald-Chronicle","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Herald-Chronicle","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/"},"author":{"name":"Herald-Chronicle","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#\/schema\/person\/468e7f592b8da810bc986868bd439f35"},"headline":"Raymond Lira","datePublished":"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/"},"wordCount":238,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg","articleSection":["Obituaries"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/","url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/","name":"Raymond Lira - The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-20T13:38:17+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-20T17:59:38+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/heaven-1849248_1280.jpg","width":1280,"height":854},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/raymond-lira\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Raymond Lira"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/","name":"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#organization","name":"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle","url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Osage-County-herald-chonicle-logo-website-2019-retina.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Osage-County-herald-chonicle-logo-website-2019-retina.png","width":500,"height":170,"caption":"The Osage County Herald-Chronicle"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/#\/schema\/person\/468e7f592b8da810bc986868bd439f35","name":"Herald-Chronicle","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1567fed55186add7c8b4db77e1cd47815494598048e6c435c3c59bf8be5e59d4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Herald-Chronicle"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.och-c.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ochcnews\/"],"url":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/author\/ochc\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8187,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions\/8187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}