PERRY, Kathleen

PERRY, PARKER, SCHUMACHER, NOBLE, RUPP, KERNS, GILREATH, LUCIA, STIMAC

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/12/2006 at 11:33:48

Kathleen Perry

CHEROKEE, Iowa -- Kathleen "Katie" Perry, 80, of Cherokee passed away Sunday, July 9, 2006, at Cherokee Regional Medical Center following a lengthy illness.

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee, with the Rev. Ray Kruger and Adrian McMullen officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. There will be a family prayer service at 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the church. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Kathleen was born Feb. 15, 1926, at her grandparent's home in Cushing, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Harriet (Parker) Schumacher. She attended country school through the eighth grade, then attended high school at Cushing Consolidated, where she graduated in 1943. She went to Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, where she obtained her teaching certificate to teach country school, which she did for five years in the Cushing-Schisselville area.

She was married to Robert C. Perry on Aug. 11, 1946, in rural Marcus, Iowa. She worked a very short time as a waitress, was a clerk at the Davis Dime Store in Cherokee, was an Avon representative, a teacher's aid for afternoon kindergarten children, had home day care and worked for more than 20 years as secretary for Memorial Presbyterian Church, where she retired in 1987.

She had been a longtime member of Memorial Presbyterian Church, Naomi Circle, Presbyterian Women, Women's Bowling League, Business and Professional Women, Degree of Honor/Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, the Sanford Museum Association and several card clubs. She served as a deacon and taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School.

She is survived by two sons, two daughters and their spouses, Mike and Connie Perry of Des Moines, Mark and Ann Perry of Estes Park, Colo., Marla and Chuck Noble of Cherokee and Marilyn and Randy Rupp of Cherokee; 21 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and soon-to-be 16 great-grandchildren; and an aunt, Sylvia Kerns of Cherokee.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert on July 8, 1977; a sister, Dorothy Gilreath; a brother, Donald Schumacher; a granddaughter, Bobbi Sue Lucia; and a great-granddaughter, Kaitlyn Stimac.