RUTLAND - On March 8, 2013, Jo Ann Dodge Perkins, of Rutland, died in the Rutland Regional Medical Center following a long illness.
Jo Ann was born March 11, 1932, the daughter of Pauline Gallup Dodge and Warren "Dick" Dodge.
She attended elementary school in Burlington and later in Jeffersonville while her father served in W.W.II. Following the war, Jo Ann attended high school in Johnson and graduated salutatorian in 1950. She then attended Becker Junior College.
On June 22, 1952, Jo Ann married Edward C. Perkins, in Johnson. Jo Ann and Ed were married for 60 years.
In the early years, they moved to Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Campbell, Ky. Jo Ann returned to Vermont and lived in Johnson while her husband was in Korea. They went on to live in Morrisville, Brattleboro and Rutland.
She is survived by her husband, Edward; three children, Martha Jo Perkins of Rutland, David D. Perkins of Centreville, Va., and Amy Beth Perkins Moore of Yorktown, Va.; four grandchildren, Pauline Perkins of Gilroy, Calif., James Perkins of Seattle, Wash., Meghan Moore, Sean Moore, and her granddog, Hoku, of Yorktown, Va.
There will be no calling hours.
A celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. on March 11, 2013, at the Grace Congregational Church in Rutland. Arrangements by Aldous Funeral Home of Rutland.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on March 9, 2013
RUTLAND - On March 8, 2013, Jo Ann Dodge Perkins, of Rutland, died in the Rutland Regional Medical Center following a long illness.
Jo Ann was born March 11, 1932, the daughter of Pauline Gallup Dodge and Warren "Dick" Dodge.
She attended elementary school in Burlington and later in Jeffersonville while her father served in W.W.II. Following the war, Jo Ann attended high school in Johnson and graduated salutatorian in 1950. She then attended Becker Junior College.
On June 22, 1952, Jo Ann married Edward C. Perkins, in Johnson. Jo Ann and Ed were married for 60 years.
In the early years, they moved to Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Campbell, Ky. Jo Ann returned to Vermont and lived in Johnson while her husband was in Korea. They went on to live in Morrisville, Brattleboro and Rutland.
She is survived by her husband, Edward; three children, Martha Jo Perkins of Rutland, David D. Perkins of Centreville, Va., and Amy Beth Perkins Moore of Yorktown, Va.; four grandchildren, Pauline Perkins of Gilroy, Calif., James Perkins of Seattle, Wash., Meghan Moore, Sean Moore, and her granddog, Hoku, of Yorktown, Va.
There will be no calling hours.
A celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. on March 11, 2013, at the Grace Congregational Church in Rutland. Arrangements by Aldous Funeral Home of Rutland.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on March 9, 2013
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