PERRY, Mildred A.

PERRY, RAPP , ELSBURY, CLOW, ALESCH , MUELLER , CLEGHORN , STARK, VAN BUSKIRK

Posted By: Colette Miles (email)
Date: 4/23/2005 at 11:19:34

Mildred A. Perry, 92, of Aurelia, Iowa died Thursday, April 5, 2001, at Sunset Knoll Retirement Home in Aurelia following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held Monday, April 9, 2001 at First Congregational Church in Aurelia, with the Rev. Bruce Rapp officiating. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Boothby Funeral Home if Cherokee, Iowa was in charge of arrange-ments.

Mrs. Perry was born October 24, 1908, in Coffins Grove Township, Delaware County, Iowa, the daughter of Isaac and Elva (Elsbury) Clow. She graduated from Gaza High School in 1926. She taught country school in O'Brien County, Iowa, from 1926 to 1930.

She married Wilson A. Perry on April 3, 1929, in Cherokee. She later returned to college and graduated from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, with a bachelor's degree in education. The couple farmed in the Aurelia area for many years. Her husband died July 5, 1968. She had also lived in Peterson, Iowa, for several years and Pocahontas, Iowa.

She moved to Cherokee in 1972. She taught in the Sioux Valley School System from 1958 to 1965, and in the Marathon, Iowa, school system from 1965 to 1971. In 1970, she studied art in Mexico City, Mexico. She entered Sunset Knoll Retirement Home in 1983.

She was a member of First Congregational Church and was active in the church groups.

Survivors include a son and his wife, W. Duane and Colleen of Aurelia; a daughter, Shirley Slota Alesch of Le Mars, Iowa; eight grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Fyrne Mueller of Sutherland, Iowa; two sisters-in-law, Hazel Cleghorn of Walker, Minnesota, and Margaret Perry of Primghar, Iowa; and several nieces and nephews.

She also was preceded in death by five grandchildren; two brothers, Gilbert and Arthur Clow; a sister, Lillian Stark; and three sons-in-law, Gerald Slota, Max Van Buskirk and Loren Alesch.

Sioux City Journal
April 7, 2001