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- EVELYN L. PERRY - PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
Newspaper November 15, 2004 | Watertown Daily Times (NY)
Page: D5 | Section: Obits
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Evelyn L. Sullivan Perry, 86, Parish, formerly of Potsdam, died Thursday at Iroquois Nursing Home, Jamesville.
Mrs. Perry began her career as a registered nurse at Potsdam Hospital, where she was head nurse of the first floor. In March 1948, she was appointed public health nurse in Massena and was one of the original eight public health nurses of Oswego County.
She was a communicant of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, Parish, and a member of the Hastings-Parish Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
Born Sept. 3, 1918, in Potsdam, daughter of William and Laura Sullivan, she was a graduate of Potsdam High School and A. Barton Hepburn School of Nursing, Ogdensburg, in the class of 1940. She enlisted in the Army Nurses Corps during World War II and served as a second lieutenant in the European theater for 15 months. Upon her return home, she attended Syracuse University, where she majored in public health nursing and graduated Aug. 23, 1947.
She married Joseph H. Perry on Sept. 1, 1947, in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Potsdam. Mr. Perry died in 1989.
Surviving are three sons, Joseph, Cecelia, Ky., Michael, Paducah, Ky., and David, Parish; three daughters, Barbara Olney, Bowling Green, Ky., Elizabeth Pidkaminy, Parish, and Peggy Parshley, Elizabethtown, Ky.; a sister, Catherine White, Potsdam, 21 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. today in St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be in Pleasant Lawn Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Harter Funeral Home.
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