Arthur PERRY

PERRY, KUNZ, FULTON, HOEGER, LAWRENCE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:47

December 9, 1894 ---- May 23, 1976

Former Truro Teacher Dies

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 25, for Arthur Perry, 81, who died at the Madison County Hospital in Winterset on Sunday, May 23. The Rev. David Wagner of Truro will conduct the 1:30 p.m. rites from the Kale Funeral Home in Truro. Interment will be in Hartman Cemetery, Truro.

Arthur Perry was born December 9, 1894, in Jackson Junction, Iowa, son of Stephen Perry and Elizabeth Kunz Perry. He attended schools in Waukoma, Cedar Falls, and received degrees from Iowa State and an M.A. from Drake University. He was married to Grace Fulton on August 15, 1926, in Truro.

He taught in country schools and then taught in Truro schools, Clarion and for 30 years in the Davenport school system. He was affiliated with St. Johns Methodist Church at Davenport.

Survivors include his wife, Grace of Truro, one brother, Oscar J. Perry of Waukoma, two sisters, Lola Hoeger of Waukoma and Bert Lawrence of Waukoma and several nieces and nephews. Preceding him in death were his parents, three sisters and one brother.

The Osceola Tribune --- Osceola, Iowa
May 25, 1976