Perri Carlson

1948 - 2015

Perri Carlson, nee Patricia Colleen Parr, passed away peacefully in her home at Raven Landing on Aug. 26, 2015, at age 67.
She was born June 6, 1948, in Vienna, Austria, to Charles H. Parr and Eloise Perdue Parr. She came into a family with twin 2-year-old boys, Charlie and Chipper.
About the time she came to Alaska with family in 1961, she insisted on being called "Perri" instead of "Patsy" as she had been known until then.
Her determination, insistence and persistence eventually got the whole family to comply and she has been Perri to all since then.
Perri attended Main Junior High School and graduated from Lathrop High School in 1966.
In 1969, she married Vern Carlson, and they had two children, Sonja Diane and Charles Vernon Carlson III, known as Bjorn. Sonja died unexpectedly young in 2008, leaving behind her husband, John Quebbemann, and daughter Kalina, of Fairbanks. Bjorn and his wife Baylie (Gray) and their children, Freyja and Ogden, moved to Virginia in early August of this year.
Perri worked with Vern in establishing and running his business as a State Farm agent. She also returned to school, earning a degree in early childhood development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Perri was predeceased by her biological mother, her father and her daughter.
She is survived by her husband, Vern, of Chicago; her mother, Karen Parr, of Fairbanks; her son, Bjorn, and his wife, Bailey, and their children; her son-in-law, John Quebbemann, and granddaughter Kalina, of Fairbanks; her brother, Charlie, of Fairbanks, and his wife, Marilyn Biagi; brother Chipper and his wife, Sandy, of Juneau; and sister Maria Sample and her husband, Roger, of Charleston, South Carolina.
She also is survived by a niece and nephew she helped raise, Chrissy McHugh, of Seattle, and Jason Parr, of Vashon, Washington. Other nieces and nephews include Charlie Parr, of Fairbanks, Elizabeth Parr, of Seattle, Jesse Parr, of Juneau, Suzanne Morris, of Juneau, and Kari Stevens, of Phoenix.
Perri touched the lives of many with her kindness, generosity, and love. She will be greatly missed by all of us.
Her family invites you to join them in a celebration of her life beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at the Raven Landing Community Center. For information, please call 374-9085.
Please visit www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsminer to sign an online guest book.