ONTARIO, Tintern (BNc) – Canadian educator, preacher, publisher and missionary, Eugene C. Perry, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at the age of 100 years.
An obituary published by the Tallman Funeral Home gives the following information.
Eugene Charles Perry passed from this life in the late evening on February 15, 2023. He was born on July 19, 1922. He and his seven siblings were raised on a dairy farm in Tintern, Ontario. From 1942 to 1945 Eugene served as a mechanic in the Canadian military.
He earned a B.A. in Education from Abilene Christian College in 1946 and completed his class work for an M.A. from Pepperdine University in 1949. Eugene was granted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harding University in 1974.
Eugene married Evelyn Huffard on December 23, 1946. They taught at Radville Christian College in Saskatchewan from 1950 to 1952 and then moved to Ontario to help start Great Lakes Christian College. There he taught for 21 years, serving as principal for 14 years.
In 1974 the Perrys went to Zambia as missionaries where Eugene served as Headmaster of Namwianga Christian Secondary School for six years. They then moved to Livingston to help with a preacher training school for three more years.
During his lifetime, Eugene was co-editor of the Gospel Herald, manager of the Gospel Herald Bookstore, a preacher, an elder, and a Bible teacher.
He is predeceased by his wife, Evelyn Huffard Perry; his mother and father, Grace and Ernest Perry; his siblings: Mary (Ted) Wark; Charles (Francis) Perry; Mabel (Richard) Taylor; Donald (Miriam) Perry; Amy (Don) Halls and great-granddaughter, Kenley Thomason.
He is survived by his four children: Patricia (Charles) Young of Grand Rapids, MI; Linda (Doran) Hammett of Okarche, OK; David (Eriye) Perry of Beamsville, ON and Martha (Larry) Thomason of Yukon, OK; twelve grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; brother Ralph (Joyce) Perry; sister, Myrna Perry; sister-in-law, Dianne Perry (wife of Donald) and many nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held on Monday, February 20, 2023 at the Tintern church of Christ at 11:00 a.m. EST. A live-stream can be viewed at https://tinternchurchofchrist.ca/watch.
Brotherhood News published an overview of Eugene’s life two years ago:
http://brotherhoodnews.com/2020/07/20/eugene-perry-celebrates-98th-birthday/
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