Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Charles R. Perri

Aug 3, 1924 – Nov. 20, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 11/21/1994

MISHAWAKA - The city mourns the loss of Charles R. Perri, a longtime leader and public figure. Mr. Perri, 70, an at-large Common Council member, died shortly after midnight Sunday in his home on South Taylor Street after a bout with cancer.

 

Mr. Perri was born Aug. 3, 1924, in Mishawaka.

 

On Sept. 23, 1950, in Mishawaka, he married Betty L. Hoover. She survives with a daughter, Diane Love of Mishawaka; a son, Carl R. of Mishawaka; two grandsons; three sisters, Catherine Klinedinst of Mishawaka, Mary Linner of Elkhart, and Margaret Catanzarite of Bovalino, Italy; and a brother, Joseph Perry of Elkhart.

 

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in St. Bavo's Catholic Church.

 

Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

 

Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, where a parish wake will be at 3 p.m.