CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Edward Dale Perry, 14 Sep 2003
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Edward D. Perry
 
Edward Dale Perry, age 76, 177 Bart Green Drive, Gray, formerly of 
Roan Mountain, died Sunday September 14, 2003 at his residence 
following a brief illness. 
He was a native of Carter County, and a son of the late Arthur Mac 
and Myrtle Lenna Jestes Perry. 
Mr. Perry was a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 
and a retired Vocational Principal and teacher at Happy Valley High 
School. Mr. Perry taught in the Carter County School System for 42 years. 
He was a member for 30 years and a former Sunday School teacher at Grays 
Chapel Presbyterian Church. 
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army/Air Force having served in World War II. 
Mr. Perry was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian Ruth Perry, and four 
brothers, Roger Perry, Hyder Perry, Linville Perry, and Lane Perry. 
He is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Tom Buchanan, 
Johnson City, and Judy and Drew Hardin, Knoxville; one granddaughter, 
Celesta Buchanan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; one grandson, Garth Fine, Johnson City, 
and one brother, Astor Perry, of Raleigh, N.C.. Several nieces and nephews 
also survive. 
The funeral service for Edward Dale Perry will be conducted at 8 p.m. on 
Tuesday, September 16, 2003, in the Riverside Chapel of Tetrick Funeral 
Home. The committal and entombment service will be conducted at 10 a.m. on 
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 in the Mausoleum of Peace at Happy Valley 
Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers are Garth Fine, Wayne Decker, F.D. 
Singleton, Tom Burleson, Ron Anderson, Bob Burleson, Edwin Decker, Bill 
Watson, Durward Julian, and Ray Greer. Those who plan to attend the 
committal service are requested to meet at the cemetery at 9:55 a.m. 
Wednesday. The family will receive friends in the chapel of the funeral 
home from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Friends may also call at the residence of 
a daughter, Linda Buchanan, at any time. Online e-mail condolences may be 
sent through our Web site at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral 
Home, 211 N. Riverside Drive, Elizabethton, is in charge of arrangements. 


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