Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....Perry, Charles W. March 1923
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Reno Evening Gazette March 5, 1923
Perry Funeral to be by Elks

  The funeral of Charles W. Perry of French Corral, Cal., for thirty-seven 

years a resident of Reno, will be held at the Elks' Home at two o'clock 

tomorrow afternoon, officers in Reno Lodge, No. 597, of the Elks conducting 

the service.

  The eulogy will be delivered by Rev. Brewster Adams, chaplain of the lodge.  

William Hull of Grass Valley will be present at the services as the 

representative of Grass Valley lodge, No. 538, of the order, of which Mr. 

Perry was a member, and which came to Reno twenty-one years ago to institute 

the local lodge and install its new officiers.  Mr. Perry was well known in 

Reno and throughout Nevada as a commercial traveler.  Three years ago he went 

to French Corral to take up residence and it was there he died.

  During the funeral services, a copy will be displayed at the Elk's Home of 

the original petition to the to the grand exalted ruler of the Elks for a 

charter for Reno, to which the name of Mr. Perry, with three other Elks, was 

signed.

  The body will be escorted from Groesbeck & O'Brien's chapel to the Elks' 

Home at noon.  The pall-bearers have not yet been announced.

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