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Year Born: 1948 Year Died: 2019 Virgil was born at home in Missouri to Rubie and Elias Perry on September 11, 1935. In 1936, the Perry family moved to Meridian, Idaho and bought a farm. The family farm is where he grew up, learned about a good day’s work and cultivated his mechanical know-how and problem-solving skills.His knowledge, aptitude and ability to work well with his hands led him to a successful welding career. He worked on many construction and pipeline projects in the Treasure Valley and across the western U.S. including the Hanford FFTF and replacing the oil pipelines on the Pearl Harbor base.His many interests and activities kept him busy and included driving and building race cars, boat building and enjoying time on the lake with family and friends, riding motorcycles, gardening and competition trapshooting. Trapshooting was his passion up to just a few years prior to his death. He won several trapshooting titles through the years and was inducted into the Idaho State Trapshooting Hall of Fame an honor he was extremely proud of. Virgil had amazing resilience and many accomplishments throughout his life, but eventually succumbed to cancer on November 13, 2019. He married Marilyn Carr in 1954 and together they had five girls. They later divorced and he married Betty Schmidt in 1977. |