Everett Carl Perry

Everett "Mad Dog" Perry Passed away in the early morning hours of 8/8/2025 aged 78 years old from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. He was born a "Baby Boomer" in 1946 in Boise, Id. To Everett and Margaret Perry. He is survived by brothers Dennis and Delbert Perry. In his adult life he would claim to be a "Boomer" going from one lineman job to another. In his early years following High School, Everett graduated from a heavy equipment school which qualified him to graduate from Navy boot camp as a Sea Bee Petty Officer3rd class. Serving in Vietnam he received an in-country field promotion to Petty Officer 2nd class heavy equipment operator. After an honorable Navy discharge his Navy training served him well and he worked as heavy equipment operator and part-time bartender until a chance meeting with a distribution line crew, working outside Glenns Ferry, Idaho liked his attitude and asked him if he would be interested in becoming a lineman. He thought about it for a minute and then put in his notice to the Elmore County Maintenance crew and started his career as a "Boomer" lineman. During this time he married Julian Dowd and adopted her daughter Jennifer. He was very fond of his grand daughter Rayne and helped her financially to graduate from University. Julian and Everett divorced and Everett lived the rest of his life as a single man. The divorce was a blessing for the cats Everett adopted and cared for. Everett was old school in his personal life and greeted any female as darlin' or 'hey beautiful'. Everett was well liked and because of his career as a "Boomer" working in many places in the Pacific Northwest he learned to make friends as an emotional survival skill, a rare talent. He would buy rounds of beer and drinks as necessary and accepted rounds in the process of making friends. As a lineman he worked jobs as a foreman, and as a brother I can say he had an exceptional lie detector skill, using his steely blue eyes and soul penetrating stare to detect B.S. when he saw and heard it. He also had a very useful memory for numbers being able to give check book routing numbers by heart when needed. In the last years of his career, he worked the ten-hour night shift as an Ore Truck Driver for Degerstrom Ventures mining company in Soda Springs, Idaho. This job, as a driver in the mining industry required an intense focus and attention on mining roads This didn't prevent him from seeing, appreciating, and reporting to friends every kind of Idaho wildlife on the private company property beside the company haul roads. In 2013, Everett retired from working as an Ore Train Driver and commented he was "damn glad" not to be getting up at 3 or 4 O'clock to go out into the cold to work. His retirement gave him time to socialize with friends and neighbors. He was a substitute dart play, and a charter member of the "Mainstreet Diner Coffee Crew" also attended by Kristie and Chad Urban, the waitresses who served them and others who dropped in on an irregular basis. This might not seem like a conventional obituary, but Everett Perry was an exception person and if you count him as a friend, you are a lucky person. As his older brother I can say Everett lived an exciting but exceptionally rigorous life. As a lineman, back in the day, he climbed 30 to 50 foot wooden-poles with a belt and spikes while handling 50 to 75 pound glass-insulation bells. He was electrocuted during a drizzling rain, and the man beside him was killed. He continued to work as a lineman, until he decided he'd had enough with back pain and nerve damage as a long term consequence of the electrocution. For the rest of his career he returned to heavy equipment and working as an Ore Train Driver for Degerstrom Ventures in Soda Springs. I know I feel lucky to have had some of my retirement years to enjoy with him when he started a phone call by greeting me as "You old pirate." (We were both in the Navy.) The world lost a lovely, authentic working man, not that he claimed such a distinction. What you saw was the man himself. I hope that he has now escaped the cares and pains of this life for a better place. I'm sure there are people who read this obituary who will remember favors or money owed to Everett "Mad Dog" Perry. Everett signed a DNR form and stipulated in his will he was to be cremated with no funeral service.