Pushmataha Co., OK. - Obit for VIRGIL CLARENCE PERRY

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Obit for VIRGIL CLARENCE PERRY

From the Medford (OR) Mail Tribune 29 Aug 2002 at www.mailtribune.com

VIRGIL CLARENCE PERRY

The funeral service for Virgil Clarence Perry will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at 
the Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2900 
Juanipero Way, Medford. Bishop Kirk Waggener will officiate. Interment will 
be at Memory Gardens, Medford, following the service.

Mr. Perry, 89, of Medford, died Monday (Aug. 26, 2002) at Providence Medford 
Medical Center.

Memorial contributions may be made to The Perpetual Education Fund, The 
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 E. North Temple, Salt Lake 
City, UT 84150.

He was born Nov. 13, 1912, in Nashoba, Okla., to James Marion and Martha 
Ellen (Edwards) Perry. He farmed with his family in Nashoba until he was 16, 
when the family traveled by covered wagon to homestead in New Mexico. He 
walked the entire distance. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch and farm 
hand. On April 16, 1934, in Clayton, N.M., he married Mary Delilah Ray, who 
survives. During the Depression he worked on other farms doing ranching and 
sheep herding for $30 a month until the family settled in Klamath Falls in 
1944, where he worked as a mechanic.

The family settled in Medford in 1963, where Mr. Perry worked as a heavy 
equipment mechanic with Peter Kewitt Construction company, putting in the 
Interstate 5 line over the Siskiyou Pass. He also worked as a millwright for 
Klamath Lumber and Box as well as KOGAP, and as a lead welder at Medford 
Steel until his retirement in 1979.

He was a member of the Good Neighbor Sam. He and his wife joined the LDS 
Church in 1950. He was a member of the LDS Medford 6th Ward, where he served 
as Sunday school president, president of the Seventies, stake missionary, 
ward clerk and Scout leader.

He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and hunting, playing pinochle and poetry.

Survivors, in addition to his wife of 68 years, include two sons, Loyd, 
Butte Falls, and Van, Vancouver, Wash.; a daughter, LaVerne Bitner, Fresno, 
Calif.; 14 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in 
death by three brothers and six sisters.

Friends may pay their respects from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the LDS 
Church on Juanipero Way, Medford.

Arrangements: Perl Funeral Home, Medford.