BERRY, OSCAR PERRY, JR.

Obituary published in the Hamilton Herald, May 1980:

Headline:  Mr. Berry

    Oscar Perry Berry Jr., 66, of Hood River, Oregon, was buried in the Hamilton I.O.O.F. Cemetery Wednesday, May 21, after funeral services in Riley Funeral Chapel at 3:30 p.m.  The Rev. Dale Yant officiated.

    Mr. Berry passed away in a Veterans Administration hospital at Portland, Oregon, after a lengthy illness.

    He was born in Hamilton County Oct. 11, 1913, a son of Oscar Perry Berry, Sr., and Myrtle White Berry.  He served a career in the U.S. Marine Corps, seeing action in both World War II and the Korean Conflict.

    His home has been in Hood River the past 26 years.

    Survivors include one sister, Maxine Taylor of Artesia, New Mexico; and three brothers, Henry Stanford Berry of San Antonio, William A. Berry of
Amarillo, and Cad W. Berry of Evant.

    Pallbearers were Brownie Dempster, Herman Walton, Robert Williams, Dobbin Stanford, Milton Harelik, Otis Grant and Doc Nelms.

Shared by Mary Cornell

B - I.O.O.F. CEMETERY, HAMILTON