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Submitted: 10/2/19 • Approved: 10/3/19 • Last Updated: 10/6/19 • R208995-G0-S3
Funeral Services for Gaylin “Lin” Everette Perry, Sr. will be held Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. at Meador Funeral Home Chapel, Gainesville, Texas. Visitation will be held Friday, September 4th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow the funeral service at Fairview Cemetery.
He was born January 22, 1934, in Lecompte, Louisiana to Avis Mae Jenkins and Everette Elmo Perry and died September 1, 2015, surrounded by his family.
He graduated from Sweeney High School in 1954. He entered the Air Force serving as a Sergeant for 4 years. While serving in the Air Force in Abilene, Texas, he met and married Monte Elizabeth Peyrot on September 2, 1956. Elizabeth and Gaylin were married 59 years. After his service, Gaylin served as a police officer and sheriff before returning to his love of barbering. Lin barbered in Pasadena, Texas for 50 years before retiring and moving to College Station, Texas. He loved lots of laughter with his family; football, the outdoors, singing in the choir, and building violins.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Perry; son, Gaylin Perry, Jr., and wife, Cyndi; daughter, Paula Perry Gardner and husband, Reese; grandchildren, Jared Perry and wife, Abby, Lance Perry and wife, Britta, Gavin Gardner, Grant Perry and wife, Megan and Gayla Gardner; 4 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Avis and Everette Perry and brother, Waydron.
Contributed on 10/2/19 by dshw
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