Remembering the life of Jon D. Perry…
A Celebration of Life Service for Jon D. Perry will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, February 18, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church, New Richland. The Reverend Paul Andree will officiate. Friends may visit with family from noon until the time of the service at the church on Monday.
Jon passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Society in Albert Lea, after a 15-year battle with cancer. He was 59.
He was born on September 27, 1953, in Waseca, Minnesota, the son of Donald and E. Jane (Dray) Perry.
He was a 1971 graduate of New Richland High School and continued his education at the Vo-Tech in Mankato, where he received training in auto mechanics.Jon was united in marriage to Cheryl Hoffman on April 23, 1977, in New Richland.
Throughout his life he worked in many different areas, from farming to delivery, to driving forklifts. He especially enjoyed the approximate 20 years he spent delivering and selling beer for Shea Distributing out of Owatonna.
He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and in earlier years had been a Lions Club member and a Cub Scout leader for his son’s troop.
Jon had a keen sense of humor and was known to be a great jokester. He was especially proud of being “Papa Jon” to his grandchildren, whom he so adored.
He will be greatly missed by his family, wife Cheryl of New Richland; daughter Jessica and her husband Brian Ferg and their children Avery and Camryn of Baldwin, WI, son Lucas Perry and his wife Desirae and their son Bradach of Woodbury, MN; sisters: Trudy Ingram of Deer Park, WA, Merrilee (Micky) Gravenish of Toronto, ON; sister-in-law Vicky (Dan) Ress of Chaska, MN, and many other beloved family members.
He was preceded in death by his parents, father-in-law and mother-in-law Martin and Gerry Hoffman, and brother-in-law Chris Ingram.