The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-06-11
Obituary.
OSCAR CRANDALL PERRY.

gerton, June /, 1878. His youth was
spent here ard he graduated from the
Edgerton high school in 1896. His next
few years were spent in Beloit college,
from which he graduated in 1900 with
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy,
having taken leading part in the ora
torlcal and literary activities of the
college. He was a good debater and
his clear reasoning powers gained for
him the editorship of the college weekly,
The Round Table
In the fall of 1900 he entered the
university at Madison for law course,
this being most attractive to him for a
life work. In Madison as in Beloit he
was soon engaged in the various stu
dent activities, being member of the
law school rowing crew and of the Phi
Delta Phi fraternity.
In the spring of 1901, on account of
poor health, he went to Ell Paso and
later to the City of Mexico. He spent
the next four years in various parts of
the republic with the Mexican Central
railway. In the fall of 1902 he married
Bertha Sloan, daughter of a prominent
American missionary of Mexico Two
children were born of this union, one of
whom is now living. His wife died in
June, 1905, and he returned to the
states soon afterwards. Since then,
excepting vacations spent in Edgerton,
his time was spent in Las Cruces and
Lake Valley, New Mexico, until about
year ago when he returned to Ell Paso
and was connected with the Ell Paso
Herald.
The state of his health becoming
alarming, his mother went to Ell Paso
in January to be with him. In April it
was thought best to bring him to Ed
gerton, but in spite of the best medical
attention he passed away on the morn
ing of June 3rd, aged thirty-one years
and two days.
The boyhood of Oscar Perry was in
all ways exemplary. At the age of
thirteen he united with the Congrega-
tional church and became an active
worker in the young peoples organiza-
lions. He was pure-minded, Studious,
respectful, obedient, and yet possessed
OF all the fulness of life that gave
promise of noble, powerful manhood.
His career in college and university was
abundantly fulfilling these high expect
atoms. His nature responded fully to
the wide appeal that the college makes
to the young man. He was ambitious
to do great things and was willing to
pay the price of success in the applica-
ton of his mind to the college tasks.
The break that came into this promis
ing career was physical. In the full
tide of young manhood, when he was at
his best, he was compelled to give up
college life to seek health in more
congenial climate. In the struggle that
followed he showed himself man.
Turned aside from his childhood plans,
he fought brave battle for life and
success in distant state and under the
heavy handicap of broken health. Added
to this was the sorrow that came to
him in the breaking up of his new home
by the death of his young wife, and
never did man suffer more by the loss
of the boundless Joy that came to him
in this beautiful domestic life; nor could
anyone face this trial with drawer
heart.
Looking upon his life and the high
qualities that came to their best in the
severe, discouraging affection, we feel
that he has grandly won. In all that
makes for the highest things of life,
Oscar Perry has succeeded, and the life
of the world has been vastly enriched
by his brief years of noble, heroic life.
AS son, brother, husband, father,
friend, he was true. He answered the
love of others with deep, strong love,
and was ever guided by high moral
purpose. No son could more truly prize
the beautiful parental devotion that
moulded his childhood and tenderly fol-
lowed him through months of affiiction.
TO live thus is to achieve the high end
of living and to win success not
moulded by few fleeing years.
On one of the most glorious of June
days we laid to rest what had been the
temple of a noble, manly spirit The
beauty of earth and sky and flowers
were voicing the peace into which the
kind messenger had summoned him
from months of weakness and pain.
Standing by the grave and remember
ing all the early promises of this young
life and its moral heroism, it was easy
to accept the full truth of the words of
our Lord: "He that believeth Oh Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live;
and he that liveth and believeth on Me
shall never die - i. III. K