Charles Perry

1927 - 2015

Charles (Charlie) Alexander Perry, Jr. - SAVANNAH - Charles passed away on December 4, 2015 at his home in Savannah. Charles was a loving father and husband, life-long Savannahian, small business owner, and real estate broker. Charles was born on E. 37th St. in 1927. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 at the age of 17 and was deployed to the South Pacific during World War II. He returned from war and attended the University of Georgia in Athens where he sang in the Glee Club and was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. Out of college he was employed as an accountant in Aiken, South Carolina at the Savannah River Site. He then moved back home to Savannah where he became a practicing real estate professional working for Mercer Realty. In 1958 he opened his own real estate business, C.A. Perry Realtor, Inc. Throughout his life he was an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He served as President of the Sertoma Club in the late 1970's through mid-80's and was President of the Savannah Theater Company in the mid to late 1980's. His passions were real estate, being of service to others, and dancing at the local shag club or whenever and wherever he had a chance to move his feet. He enjoyed surfing and walking the beaches at Tybee Island and Hilton Head, fishing, and entertaining friends and family in his home. He is preceded in death by his grandmother Rosa Martin Perry, his parents Charles Alexander Perry II and Daisy Mae Waters, his brother, Thomas Haynes Perry, Jr., and his wife of 41 years, Dianne Gnann Perry. He is survived by his daughter Simona Lee Perry and son-in-law Ernesto Brown Barquero; two nieces, Suzanne Adams (Rick) of Port Wentworth and Gaye Williams (Chris) of Richmond Hill, and one nephew, Thomas Haynes Tom Perry, Jr. Visitation will be Monday, December 7 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Hodgson Chapel. A funeral service will be Tuesday, December 8 at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. There will be a private burial in the Greenwich Section of Bonaventure Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the memory of Charles A. Perry, Jr. to the Thomas Park Food Pantry, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401 or to Hospice Savannah Foundation, P.O. Box 13190, Savannah, Georgia 31416, on-line at https://www.hospicesavannah.org/ways-to-give/donations/. Please sign our online guestbook at www.foxandweeks.com Savannah Morning News December 7, 2015 Please sign our Obituary Guest Book at savannahnow.com/obituaries.