Olive Thelma (Alley) Perry (1897 - 1982)

Born 4 Feb 1897 in Colorado, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Arthur Howard Perry — married 17 Feb 1916 in Texas

Died 28 Feb 1982 at age 85 in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States

Biography

Olive Thelma Alley, daughter of John Alley and Eliza Hoover, was born in 1897. She died in 1982^[1] and is buried in Alley Cemetery in Alleyton, Texas.^[2]

Research Notes

Note: Thelma seems to have been happily married to Arthur Perry who died in an accident at the Houston docks in 1939 as he performed his job of Longshoreman. According to the obituary of Thelma's brother, Shelly Alley, who passed away in 1964, she must have remarried a man whose last name was Carey, but she must have divorced this man and taken her Perry name back, because the SSDI indicates that she was Olive Thelma Perry when she died in 1982. (Either that or the person writing the obituary got her last name wrong.)

Obituary

LAST RITES FOR THELMA ALLEY PERRY

Mrs. Thelma Alley Perry, 85, passed away in the Southeast Memorial Hospital in Houston Sunday, Feb. 28th at 8:30 p.m. She had been in failing health for the past year and a half.

Funeral services were held from the Mill-Bauer Funeral Home in Eagle Lake Wednesday, March 3rd at 2:00 p.m. with interment in the Alley Cemetery in Ramsey. The Rev. Walter Doty of Houston officiated.

Mrs. Perry was born February 4, 1897 in Ramsey. Her parents were John Ross and Eliza Hoover Alley. She has resided in Houston for the past fifty-five years.

Her husband, Arthur Perry, and one son preceded her in death.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. June A. Robertson; two sons, Lewis L. Perry and Alvin Ray Perry, all of Houston; grandchildren, Mrs. Janice Baldwin of Brownwood, Richard Perry and Zeno Robertson Jr., Houston, George W. Murphy of Lynchburg, Virginia, T. E. Murphy of Monrovia, California; and a number of great-grandchildren, nieces, great nieces, nephews and great nephews.

Mrs. Perry was a member of the Central park Church of God in Houston and the Dilue Rose Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

Eagle Lake Headlight, March 4, 1982, page 16

Sources

1. ↑ "Texas Death Index, 1964-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JVXL-KPT : 5 December 2014), Olive Thelma Perry, Harris, Texas, United States; citing Department of State Health Services, Austin.
2. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2S-31VW : 15 July 2020), Olive Thelma Alley Perry, 1982; Burial, , ; citing record ID 52987117, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2SZ-BVW : accessed 22 July 2021), Olive T Alley in household of John R Alley, Justice Precinct 8, Colorado, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 3B, family 65, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1540; FHL microfilm 1,375,553.