Robert H. Perrin

PERRIN, HARDISTY, LILLY, ANDERSEN, SEVIER, ABELL, ORTGIES

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 2/24/2006 at 17:08:08

ROBERT H. PERRIN

Creston News Advertiser
10 April 2000

Robert H. "Bob" Perrin, 61, of Macksburg died from injuries received in an explosion in Winterset April 7, 2000, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. April 11 at the United Methodist Church in Macksburg with the Rev. Neil Platon officiating. Burial will be in the Moon Cemetery at Macksburg with military rites by VFW Theodore J. Martens Post No 1797 of Creston.

Mr. Perrin was born Aug. 5, 1938 in Adams County to Russell Hollis and Ruth Virgie (Hardisty) Perrin. He was raised by Art and Ruth Lilly. He graduated from Zion Consolidated High School in 1956. On Jan. 23, 1965, he married Wilma Lorraine Andersen in Troy Mills. He served in the U.S. Marines from 1956 to 1958. After his discharge, he worked as an ambulance driver in California for several years. He returned to Iowa and worked for Cramer Brothers of Des Moines building bridges. He drove a semi until 1968. He lived in northeast Iowa from 1965 until moving to the Zion and Macksburg area in 1968 where he helped area farmers. In 1974, he opened and operated a feed store in Macksburg which he expanded into Lorimor and closed the business in 1989. He worked as a fruit vendor for 12 years. He operated a salvage yard as a recycling engineer. He was a member of the Macksburg United Methodist Church and Lions Club. He was a former member of the Odd Fellows. He coached Little League softball in Nevinville and Macksburg.

Survivors include his wife, Wilma Perrin of Macksburg; mother, Ruth Lilly of Creston; two daughter, Robin Lorraine (husband Pat) Sevier and Desiree Kay (husband Charlie Abell) Perrin-Abell of Macksburg; a half brother, Don (wife Judy) Perrin of Corning; two half sisters, Donna (husband Ed) Ortgies of Atlantic and Dorothy (husband Daniel) Anderson of Oakland; and one grandson.

He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Art Lilly.