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o e/irven when she is O\Isy. '
;~<~,~s ~rn and,reared: married
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'i<., ,ai'sed:her family'and now retired -'- c :,
in Brazos County.
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~~;. &~FY was born in 1925.
"My father rode the trolley from
Northgate into town, ~4 was almost. . .'
late ..for my arrival. I heard my mother .i
tell that story many times," she said,. " ~
smiling. ~
"I've roller-skated all over the A&M ~
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campus, every day in fact until I )'V.ent . ~
to schoQI. We had iceboxes when I was ~
Y~tl~_ ~o M'other and. all. the faculty ,
WIves we~t ev J d~y to Luke & ~~
CharH~'s~i)~ ":store on College J
Maih " tee' '.~ .' '-"
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. "An empla!/ffh, ha~ a motorcycle ..
withia big ooic'o ,t11~~.back, and he
woul\l deliver the w~~eries Mother
chose\later in the day. With five ehll-
dren 11 feed, as'well as the household
help, i~was a big job every day."
Her mother was Mabel CIl:!ire Thomas
.of Alabama. Her father was the Texas
'~;sl'!' . :(oli1ll;~1tst' ~t the Agricultural
ep.t Station, Frank L. Thomas.
., .ed on campus in a modest
me house, three in from the corner of
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atiit. retkrned'to, College
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_ " . ,;' - . , "'Station, when: Perry 'taught mechanical
r:1inH 'Went to church ser- . '. . ~ 47 't Te A&M
. ' engmeenng lor years a xas .
_ e\'MCA building.
mstmction of Texas 6 at the
~tHe campus and the emergence
, e;~in importance caused the
;..,.' );0 "flipflop," with the main
and academic building built
t.
Jij:t40, when the college was mov-
. aculty off campus, my parents
wo-story home on Walton Drive
,~from the Eastgate.
'hen, I could drive, and I would
friends to Northgate, and
mb's Pharmacy actually had curb
~;for cokes and milk shakes, "
m~mbers with a laugh and a
~~h~r_eye.
as thinking,ab,01.l,t.,the..~~lll-tM
g in back of the barber shop
'ng machine that was
'~'JllU:Hor;<'a permanent.
tentlal husband arrives
.~rry met her husband, John V.
, in Sbisa Dining Hall ~h~~;l!"'-
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,vedas part of the Ar.my;that:was
. g given special engineering train-
in World War II.
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"M~. Ivey, wife of the barber and a
trained nurse, took care of all the cam-
pus. women and actually moved in for
two wee~s when you had a baby," said
Perry, who used her three times - for
the birth of John, Judy and Joan:
Perry taught fourth grade in the ele-
mentary school that is now the College-
Station Conference Center and later
started the art department at A&M
Consoli~ated. High School, teaching for
seven years. -
, 'lllien: after re
privately ann s~rve~:'
shows.
Ii ecei'\Ted~a,degr~ from 'Fexas
Woman's University in 1945 and ha'S"1m1ll
art scholarship there given annually in .
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" ,m'Englimd and
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" my paintings to this day," Perry said.
She was named by the Arts Council
as "most valuable member of the Art
League in 1982" and again in 1988 as
"most outstanding contributor to the
arts in the Brazos Valley" with the
Andy Anderson Award.
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Calendar and now hangs in the foyer af' :,
the College Station Conference Center.
Medicare Part B pays for pneum~Iria
.-r" , '''-::;,!;le'-,o"!lI'
voter. And, _ the' sa.me can -l)esaid';o
... :r' . - .~~ '.~"'-,ir
good legislative aide. Those .indiVi:afiJ!~.;...
are the lifeline between the lek;ilila:tor, ~
and the bills that must be understood '
and passed or rejected in the legislative
session.
During the years I have been observ-
ing and working with the legislative
process, I have learned a lot and gained
a great deal of respect for the residents
who !ake on this responsibility.
Hillier Fune..~~-
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