Dr. J.T. Perry, 55 years old, 811 North Elwood avenue, died in a Tulsa hospital yesterday morning of blood poisoning which developed from a minor scratch.

Doctor Perry, a member of the Perry clinic, has been associated with his brother, Dr. M.L. Perry, and his sons, in the medical profession here for a number of years. Born in Greenwood, Ark., Doctor Perry was educated in the schools of Arkansas and obtained his medical degree at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Doctor Perry's brother also entered the medical profession about the same time, and four of Doctor Perry's sons are now either doctors or are studying to enter the medical profession.

Doctor Perry is survived by his widow and five sons; Dr. Daniel Perry of Cushing, Dr. Hugh Perry of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Ralph Perry, employee of the Skelly Oil company of Tulsa; James T. Perry, a medical student at the Washington University at St. Louis, and Fred Perry, a medical student at the University of Tulsa. He also is survived by one daughter, Louise Perry, 10 years old, of the old address, and two brothers, Dr. M.L. Perry of Tulsa and Dr. D.H. Perry of Dayton, Ark.

Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the First Baptist church, with the Rev. R.J. Bateman officiating. The members of the Masonic lodge, of which organization Doctor Perry was a member, will attend the services in a body and will have charge of the rites at the Rose Hill cemetery, where internment will be made. The Stanley and McCune Undertaking company will have charge of the services. The Reverend Bateman, pastor of the First Baptist church, has been out of the city for several days on a vacation, but members of the church succeeded in locating him yesterday and he wired that he would return to Tulsa in order to have charge of the rites for Doctor Perry. Doctor Perry recently had been named a deacon in the church.

- Published in the Tulsa World, 22 August 1930