Jack Ray Perry, 91, of Prairie City, died Feb. 4 at Blue Mountain Nursing Home. Services were held Feb. 9 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in John Day. Burial followed at Rest Lawn Cemetery, also in John Day.

Mr. Perry was born April 24, 1921, in Nampa, Idaho, to Elva and Rosella (Lewis) Perry. He graduated from high school in Nampa, and from college in Moscow, Idaho, where he received training in accounting, civil aeronautic engineering and data processing.

On Aug. 2, 1942, he married Patricia Adams in Ellensburg, Wash. He worked as an accountant for Bumper to Bumper, retiring in 1987.

He enjoyed playing the cello, chess, reading, listening to classical music, trading and going to trade lodges. He was active in the community, and a member of the Masonic Lodge, Shriners Club, Elks Lodge, Scottish Rite, Order of the Eastern Star and the Moose Lodge. His accomplishments were his schooling, working as an accountant, raising a family of three boys and learning to play the cello in the later years of his life.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia Perry, of John Day; sons Earl Charles Perry of Mt. Vernon and David Steven Perry of Elgin, S.C.

He was preceded in death by his brothers Everett and Earl Perry; sister Metta Pitman; and son Donald Perry.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners Hospital or Blue Mountain Nursing Home through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon Blvd. John Day, OR 97845.