The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 1:
DEATH CLAIMS E. B. PERRY SUNDAY MORNING
Resident of the City for Past Forty Years Called to Last Reward at Home in This City
From Monday's Daily -- The community was called upon to mourn the passing of one of the old and highly respected residents early Sunday morning when Ezra B. Perry was called to his final reward after an illness that has covered a period of several months and in the last few weeks of which he had been gradually growing weakened day by day until the end came Sunday morning at 3 o'clock.
Mr. Perry has been a resident of Plattsmouth for the past forty-four years and his pleasant and friendly associations with the people of the community has made him one that will be greatly missed and mourned sincerely by the friends of these past years.
In the days that have followed his first illness, Mr. Perry has felt the approach of the end, but resignedly and in true Christian spirit awaited for the coming of the summons that was to give him final rest and peace from the troublesome life on earth and the cares and suffering of the physical life.
Ezra Blake Perry was born May 25, 1849, at Toulon, Stark county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood, and where on December 30, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie K. Flangsburg, the happy couple residing for some seven years after their marriage at Toulon and coming to Plattsmouth in the year 1881 making their home in this community since that time.
To bless the life of Mr. and Mrs. Perry, seven children came to their home, one of whom, Joseph A. Perry, preceded the father in death December 19, 1914. The children who with the wife and mother survive the passing of this good man are Jesse P. Perry, Mrs. Herbert C. Sherwood, Miss Grace S. Perry, Hallie B. Perry, all of this city, Mrs. Albert Funk of near Murray, and Henry C. Perry, stationed in the army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are also two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Bowers of Julesburg, Colorado, and Mrs. Price Shepherd of LaMar, Missouri, to mourn the death of Mr. Perry.
In the loss that has come to them and in the kind and loving husband and father, the bereaved family will have the most sincere sympathy of the host of friends in this community.
The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 6:
FUNERAL OF E. B. B. PERRY HELD AT HOME TUESDAY
Large Number of the Old Friends are Present to Pay Their Last Tribute to Memory of Departed
From Wednesday's Daily -- Yesterday afternoon the funeral services of the late Ezra B. Perry, held at the home on west Marble street, was quite largely attended the old friends of years standing and the neighbors gathering to pay their last tributes to this good man, who at the close of a long and useful life had laid down the tasks of his daily life to enter into the everlasting rest...
... At the conclusion of the service the body was borne to the Oak Hill cemetery where in the closing hours of the afternoon it was laid to the long rest besides those of the family circle that had journeyed on before him...
DEATH CLAIMS E. B. PERRY SUNDAY MORNING
Resident of the City for Past Forty Years Called to Last Reward at Home in This City
From Monday's Daily -- The community was called upon to mourn the passing of one of the old and highly respected residents early Sunday morning when Ezra B. Perry was called to his final reward after an illness that has covered a period of several months and in the last few weeks of which he had been gradually growing weakened day by day until the end came Sunday morning at 3 o'clock.
Mr. Perry has been a resident of Plattsmouth for the past forty-four years and his pleasant and friendly associations with the people of the community has made him one that will be greatly missed and mourned sincerely by the friends of these past years.
In the days that have followed his first illness, Mr. Perry has felt the approach of the end, but resignedly and in true Christian spirit awaited for the coming of the summons that was to give him final rest and peace from the troublesome life on earth and the cares and suffering of the physical life.
Ezra Blake Perry was born May 25, 1849, at Toulon, Stark county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood, and where on December 30, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie K. Flangsburg, the happy couple residing for some seven years after their marriage at Toulon and coming to Plattsmouth in the year 1881 making their home in this community since that time.
To bless the life of Mr. and Mrs. Perry, seven children came to their home, one of whom, Joseph A. Perry, preceded the father in death December 19, 1914. The children who with the wife and mother survive the passing of this good man are Jesse P. Perry, Mrs. Herbert C. Sherwood, Miss Grace S. Perry, Hallie B. Perry, all of this city, Mrs. Albert Funk of near Murray, and Henry C. Perry, stationed in the army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are also two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Bowers of Julesburg, Colorado, and Mrs. Price Shepherd of LaMar, Missouri, to mourn the death of Mr. Perry.
In the loss that has come to them and in the kind and loving husband and father, the bereaved family will have the most sincere sympathy of the host of friends in this community.
The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 6:
FUNERAL OF E. B. B. PERRY HELD AT HOME TUESDAY
Large Number of the Old Friends are Present to Pay Their Last Tribute to Memory of Departed
From Wednesday's Daily -- Yesterday afternoon the funeral services of the late Ezra B. Perry, held at the home on west Marble street, was quite largely attended the old friends of years standing and the neighbors gathering to pay their last tributes to this good man, who at the close of a long and useful life had laid down the tasks of his daily life to enter into the everlasting rest...
... At the conclusion of the service the body was borne to the Oak Hill cemetery where in the closing hours of the afternoon it was laid to the long rest besides those of the family circle that had journeyed on before him...
The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 1:
DEATH CLAIMS E. B. PERRY SUNDAY MORNING
Resident of the City for Past Forty Years Called to Last Reward at Home in This City
From Monday's Daily -- The community was called upon to mourn the passing of one of the old and highly respected residents early Sunday morning when Ezra B. Perry was called to his final reward after an illness that has covered a period of several months and in the last few weeks of which he had been gradually growing weakened day by day until the end came Sunday morning at 3 o'clock.
Mr. Perry has been a resident of Plattsmouth for the past forty-four years and his pleasant and friendly associations with the people of the community has made him one that will be greatly missed and mourned sincerely by the friends of these past years.
In the days that have followed his first illness, Mr. Perry has felt the approach of the end, but resignedly and in true Christian spirit awaited for the coming of the summons that was to give him final rest and peace from the troublesome life on earth and the cares and suffering of the physical life.
Ezra Blake Perry was born May 25, 1849, at Toulon, Stark county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood, and where on December 30, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie K. Flangsburg, the happy couple residing for some seven years after their marriage at Toulon and coming to Plattsmouth in the year 1881 making their home in this community since that time.
To bless the life of Mr. and Mrs. Perry, seven children came to their home, one of whom, Joseph A. Perry, preceded the father in death December 19, 1914. The children who with the wife and mother survive the passing of this good man are Jesse P. Perry, Mrs. Herbert C. Sherwood, Miss Grace S. Perry, Hallie B. Perry, all of this city, Mrs. Albert Funk of near Murray, and Henry C. Perry, stationed in the army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are also two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Bowers of Julesburg, Colorado, and Mrs. Price Shepherd of LaMar, Missouri, to mourn the death of Mr. Perry.
In the loss that has come to them and in the kind and loving husband and father, the bereaved family will have the most sincere sympathy of the host of friends in this community.
The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 6:
FUNERAL OF E. B. B. PERRY HELD AT HOME TUESDAY
Large Number of the Old Friends are Present to Pay Their Last Tribute to Memory of Departed
From Wednesday's Daily -- Yesterday afternoon the funeral services of the late Ezra B. Perry, held at the home on west Marble street, was quite largely attended the old friends of years standing and the neighbors gathering to pay their last tributes to this good man, who at the close of a long and useful life had laid down the tasks of his daily life to enter into the everlasting rest...
... At the conclusion of the service the body was borne to the Oak Hill cemetery where in the closing hours of the afternoon it was laid to the long rest besides those of the family circle that had journeyed on before him...
DEATH CLAIMS E. B. PERRY SUNDAY MORNING
Resident of the City for Past Forty Years Called to Last Reward at Home in This City
From Monday's Daily -- The community was called upon to mourn the passing of one of the old and highly respected residents early Sunday morning when Ezra B. Perry was called to his final reward after an illness that has covered a period of several months and in the last few weeks of which he had been gradually growing weakened day by day until the end came Sunday morning at 3 o'clock.
Mr. Perry has been a resident of Plattsmouth for the past forty-four years and his pleasant and friendly associations with the people of the community has made him one that will be greatly missed and mourned sincerely by the friends of these past years.
In the days that have followed his first illness, Mr. Perry has felt the approach of the end, but resignedly and in true Christian spirit awaited for the coming of the summons that was to give him final rest and peace from the troublesome life on earth and the cares and suffering of the physical life.
Ezra Blake Perry was born May 25, 1849, at Toulon, Stark county, Illinois, where he grew to manhood, and where on December 30, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie K. Flangsburg, the happy couple residing for some seven years after their marriage at Toulon and coming to Plattsmouth in the year 1881 making their home in this community since that time.
To bless the life of Mr. and Mrs. Perry, seven children came to their home, one of whom, Joseph A. Perry, preceded the father in death December 19, 1914. The children who with the wife and mother survive the passing of this good man are Jesse P. Perry, Mrs. Herbert C. Sherwood, Miss Grace S. Perry, Hallie B. Perry, all of this city, Mrs. Albert Funk of near Murray, and Henry C. Perry, stationed in the army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are also two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Bowers of Julesburg, Colorado, and Mrs. Price Shepherd of LaMar, Missouri, to mourn the death of Mr. Perry.
In the loss that has come to them and in the kind and loving husband and father, the bereaved family will have the most sincere sympathy of the host of friends in this community.
The Plattsmouth Journal, September 17, 1925, Page 6:
FUNERAL OF E. B. B. PERRY HELD AT HOME TUESDAY
Large Number of the Old Friends are Present to Pay Their Last Tribute to Memory of Departed
From Wednesday's Daily -- Yesterday afternoon the funeral services of the late Ezra B. Perry, held at the home on west Marble street, was quite largely attended the old friends of years standing and the neighbors gathering to pay their last tributes to this good man, who at the close of a long and useful life had laid down the tasks of his daily life to enter into the everlasting rest...
... At the conclusion of the service the body was borne to the Oak Hill cemetery where in the closing hours of the afternoon it was laid to the long rest besides those of the family circle that had journeyed on before him...
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