Ralph M. Perry
Mason City - Ralph Marion Perry, 72, of Mason City, Illinois State University associate professor of French emeritus, died at 1:30 p.m. Saturday (March 26, 1983) at Community Hospital, Fort Myers, Fla. He had been spending the winter in Florida.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lanham-Wolfe Funeral Home, Potomac. Burial will be in Potomac Cemetery.
Visitation will be after 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mr. Perry was born Aug. 25, 1911, in Chicago, a son of Walter and Nellie G. Allison Perry. He married Nell Jane Alexander in 1934 in Potomac. She died February 1968. He married Helen White March 30, 1969. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Richard Douglas, St. Louis; and five grandchildren.
A brother preceded him in death.
Mr. Perry came to the ISU foreign language department in June 1967, and retired in September 1979. He had taught at the University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, Hope College and Harris Teachers College before coming to ISU.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He received a doctor's degree from the U of I and did post-doctoral study at Washington and Indiana universities and the Sorbonne.
Mr. Perry had taught Russian, Spanish and Chinese, as well as French. He had spent two years in China to learn the language and was planning a trip to Portugal to study languages.
He had written books and articles concerning the teaching of French and French literature. He was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve from 1943-46.
Mr. Perry was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. Tuesday, 29 march 1983.
Ralph M. Perry
Mason City - Ralph Marion Perry, 72, of Mason City, Illinois State University associate professor of French emeritus, died at 1:30 p.m. Saturday (March 26, 1983) at Community Hospital, Fort Myers, Fla. He had been spending the winter in Florida.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lanham-Wolfe Funeral Home, Potomac. Burial will be in Potomac Cemetery.
Visitation will be after 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mr. Perry was born Aug. 25, 1911, in Chicago, a son of Walter and Nellie G. Allison Perry. He married Nell Jane Alexander in 1934 in Potomac. She died February 1968. He married Helen White March 30, 1969. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Richard Douglas, St. Louis; and five grandchildren.
A brother preceded him in death.
Mr. Perry came to the ISU foreign language department in June 1967, and retired in September 1979. He had taught at the University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, Hope College and Harris Teachers College before coming to ISU.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He received a doctor's degree from the U of I and did post-doctoral study at Washington and Indiana universities and the Sorbonne.
Mr. Perry had taught Russian, Spanish and Chinese, as well as French. He had spent two years in China to learn the language and was planning a trip to Portugal to study languages.
He had written books and articles concerning the teaching of French and French literature. He was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve from 1943-46.
Mr. Perry was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. Tuesday, 29 march 1983.
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