Jack PERRY

PERRY, FEDEROWSKY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 22:52:24

Jack Perry, 82, of 351 Wendell Road, died Thursday (July 15, 2004), at home after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Clarion, Iowa, March 8, 1922, he was the son of Shirley and Fern Perry. He was a resident of Shutesbury, Massachusetts for more than 40 years. The town honored him for his creative efforts in 2003. He was a World War II veteran, serving with the 2689th Ground Liaison Attachment, Small Intelligence Unit, attached to the 12th Air Force Advance, stationed in Corsica and Italy. He received a theater degree from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and later did graduate work at both Stanford University and the Yale Drama School. He was a playwright, wrote for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and worked in the advertising department there, before retiring in 1987. He also wrote radio and television commercials for Jackson Associates, the house agency for the Holyoke-based Lestoil Co. It was there he met his wife of 42 years, the former Annette Federowsky. He was the author of three published plays as well as a collection of essays, "Clarion Chronicles: A Garden Along The Railroad Tracks." A fourth play, "Without Consent," won a Mount Holyoke College Summer Theater competition. The play was produced in South Hadley in 1991. He wrote advertising copy for and was a broadcaster at WTTT-AM radio in Amherst and hosted the "Sunday on Broadway" radio show. He was an avid cribbage player, winning the 1981 New England Cribbage Championship at the annual American Cribbage Association Tournament which was held in Greenfield. He was an ardent Red Sox fan. He was a parishioner of St. Brigid's Church in Amherst for many years.

Besides his wife, survivors include three sons, Jonathan A. of Brookline, Christopher J. of Cambridge and Kinson B. of Colchester, Conn.; a daughter, Cassandra E. of Newburyport and two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Lydia, both of Colchester. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be held Monday at 11 a.m., at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Shelburne Falls, with the Rev. John A. Roach, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Our Lady of Chestochowa Church in Turners Falls. Calling hours will be Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., at Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home, 87 Franklin St., Greenfield. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are suggested to St. Brigid's Church, 122 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002 or BVNA & Hospice, 45 Amherst Road, P.O. Box 482, Sunderland, MA 01375-0482.

Recorder, The (Greenfield, MA)
July 21, 2004

Jack Perry, 82, of Shutesbury, Massachusetts, died Thursday, July 15, 2004 at his home after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. Services were held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Shelburne Falls. Rev. John Roach officiated at the service. Burial was in Our Lady of Chestochowa Church in Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

Jack Perry was born March 8, 1922, in Clarion, the son of Shirley and Fern Perry. He was a resident of Shutesbury for more than 40 years. The town honored him for his creative efforts in 2003. Jack was a World War II veteran, serving with the 2689th Ground Liaison Attachment, Small Intelligence Unit, attached to the 12th Air Force Advance, stationed in Corsica and Italy. He received a theater degree from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and later did graduate work at both Stanford University and the Yale Drama School. Jack was a playwright, wrote for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and worked in the advertising department there, before retiring in 1987. He also wrote radio and television commercials for Jackson Associates, the house agency for the Holyoke-based Lestoil Co. It was there he met his wife of 42 years, the former Annette Federowsky. He was the author of three published plays as well as a collection of essays, "Clarion Chronicles: A Garden Along The Railroad Tracks". A fourth play, "Without Consent", won a Mount Holyoke College Summer Theater competition. The play was produced in South Hadley in 1991.

He is survived by his wife, Annette of Shutesbury, Maryland; three sons, Jonathan A. of Brookline, Massachusetts, Christopher J. of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Kinson B. of Colchester, Connecticut; one daughter, Cassandra E. of Newburyport, Massachusetts; and two grandchildren.

August 19, 2004
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