Obituary- 1960-Seaborn Perry-Richland Parish, Louisiana Submitteb by Kaye McMahan Noska ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Shawnee News Star-11 Nov. 1960 Shawnee, Oklahoma "Seaborn Perry Dies Thursday in Hospital" Seaborn Perry, 79, retired Rock Island employee, died early Thursday in a local Hospital. Services will be announved by Gaskill Funeral Chapel. Born November 18, 1880 in Delhi, Louisiana, he moved to Texas as a child and came to Oklahoma in 1895. He had lived in Shawnee since 1902. He was employed at the Rock Island from 1902 until his retirement in 1954, and was a mechanic and assistant round house foreman. His wife, Clara May Perry, died October 23, 1957. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and Shawnee Lodge # 107, AF&AM. Dr. Lowell D. Milburn, Pastor of First Baptist Church and Rev. J. William Hestwood, Pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery. Survivors are four sons: Virgil, 828 N. Louisa; Waynard of Tulsa; Richard of Rochester, New York; Kenneth, USAF, Greenville, Mississippi. Two sisters: Mrs. Rosalie White of the 1124 N. Beard home; Mrs. B. O. Howle of Wichita Falls, Texas; One brother: Felix Perry of Clearlake Oaks, Calif. A brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Eli Litton, 110 W Franklin, Shawnee,Ok. and five Grandchildren. My Note~Seaborn PERRY was the son of James Richard PERRY & Mary Ann Young Jackson PERRY. KMN