Ima Jean and Eugene in photo Elroy Christenson 1999
Eugene Earl Perry
b. Jan 15, 1943 unknown (west), TX
d. September 4, 2013 near Galveston, TX (age 70 of heart failure)
buried: next to Ima Jean in Alba Cem., Emory, TX
m. Ima Jean Christenson June
1, 1963 Grand Prairie, TX*
b. September 6, 1945 Gary, Indiana
d. Saturday, September 13, 2003 Arlington, Texas (age 58) of stomach
cancer
buried: Alba Cemetery, near Emory, Texas
her father: Chris M. Christenson
her mother: Violet Kirkland
Children | |||
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Glenn Eugene Perry | b. Dec, 1964 Arlington, Texas | d. living | m. Lori Chapin, June 22, 1990 Grand Prairie, TX (dau. of Jacob Terry Chapin and Linda (Clayburne) Chapin) |
Tammy Jean Perry |
b. May, 1968 Arlington, Texas |
d. living |
m. Robert McCoy, 13 Sept., 1986 GrandPrairie, TX
(son of Eunice (Robinet) and Johnnie McCoy |
1963, June - Ima Jean and Eugene Perry marry.
Eugene gets a job with General Motors in Arlington, Texas where he
remains until his retirement about 1994. For the next thirty
years Ima Jean is wife and Mom to her small family. She tots
them back and forth to school and devotes many hours to helping them in
their school activities. For awhile she cleans houses for some
extra cash.
1964- Glenn is born.
1968 - Tammy is born. Both kids grow up in and graduate from
Grand Prairie High School. Glenn was quite involved in a rodeo
club in high school and was known for his bull doggin.
1986- Tammy married Robert McCoy and start to raise a family of their own.
Glenn gets involved with truck driving for Coors beer company.
Eventually he goes off to form his own trucking company.
Tammy worked for the City of Grand Prairie and her husband Robert
learns about being a diesel mechanic.
Tammy and Robert McCoy have two
children, Justin McCoy and
Haley McCoy.
1987 - Ima Jean and Eugene build a log cabin near Lake Fork getting
ready for retirement. Ima Jean was not particularly fond of the
idea of being so far away from her kids who remained in Grand Prairie
near their grand parents on both sides.
1989- Ima Jean's father, Chris Christenson, dies.
1990 - Glenn Perry marries Lorie Chapin. They have four
children.
1994 - Eugene retires from General Motors and takes up a new career
as a long distance truck driver. He works for several firms and
travels all over the United States. In the meanwhile Ima Jean
makes long and frequent stays with her mother and father. She
assisted her mom with the care of her father who had Alzheimer's
disease.
Glenn Perry becomes a truck driver for Coor's Brewery. He works for them for several years and eventually starts his own trucking company. It is hit hard by the high fuel prices.
Eugene is a devoted grandfather although doing this by long distance
much of the time.
2003, Mar - Sept - Ima Jean is treated for intestinal problems that took far too long to diagnose. After almost three months they thought it may be cancer. Treatment is delayed until it was too late to take any successful corrective action. She undergoes chemotherapy for several weeks which made her only weaker and made her loose her hair.
Aug - Her brother, Elroy, and his wife fly into town in the evening and the next morning take Ima Jean to the emergency room. When they deliver Ima Jean to the emergency room at Arlington Memorial on the north side of Arlington by wheelchair Eugene is dragging his leg and walking with a cane. Nurses ask which is being admitted. Ima Jean goes up to intensive care. A day or two later Eugene has to go in for an operation on his back with a pinched nerve by his collapsed spine to South Arlington Hospital. Everyone in the family was going back and forth between the two hospitals for several days.
Ima Jean gets a new doctor in the Arlington Cancer Center who finally identifies the cancer and tries a couple of other drugs but basically tells her that this was a very agressive form of cancer, similar to lung cancer, but centered in the colon. Elroy and Cheryl were very involved with the doctors for the two weeks they were in town but had tried to make sure she received the best possible treatment.
Ima Jean and Eugene come home from the hospital to stay with her mother. Glenn, Tammy and Violet do the bulk of the care for both.
Ima Jean goes shopping on Sept 6, her birthday, at Walmart. She bought something for all the grand kids, her Mom and Eugene.
Sept 9, she tells her son and daughter everything that she wanted them to know because she knew she was dying. She goes into the Arlington Memorial that night.
She goes to the hospice the next day.
Saturday, September 13 she dies. Her brother, Elroy, hears about it a France that day. His wife, Cheryl, flys down to Texas to represent the family.
2005 - Eugene moves to Galveston Is, TX. The children still
live in the Dallas area.
2013, Apr 27 - Haley McCoy marries Austin Wilson in Grapevine,
TX. She is now expecting.
2013 - Eugene dies in Galveston, TX. He had been ill off an on
for seveal months prior.
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