Agnes M. Perry

December 17, 2017

Agnes Marie (Concannon) Perry, of Lancaster, passed away Sunday, December 17, at St. Anne’s Retirement Community in Columbia. She was born in Shamokin, PA, the daughter of the late Mary (Rhoades) and Patrick Concannon. She was the wife for nearly fifty years of James R. Perry, until his death in 1995.
She is survived by their six adult children and their spouses, John M. (Jack) and Eileen Perry of CT, Michael F. and Becky Perry of Strasburg, David M. and Carol Perry of Millersville, Anne (Perry) Vogt of Lancaster, Carole (Perry) and Daryl Hohenwarter of Strasburg and Jim P. Perry of Columbia. She is also survived by her twelve grandchildren, Felecia, Jeffrey, Matthew, Jennifer, Carolyn, Daniel, Jack, Stephen, Eric, Marysue, Destiny and Lisa, and her eleven great grandchildren.
She was a devoted member of Sacred Heart Church in Lancaster, where she regularly attended and previously volunteered. She was a member of the Women’s Guild. She also formerly volunteered for St. Anne’s and for the Red Cross.
She was an accomplished, creative and dedicated homemaker, and her family was the focus of her life. She accompanied her Air Force career husband to many locations, including Maine, Kansas, South Dakota and Okinawa, Japan. She was a skilled seamstress and sewed many things, including upholstery, clothing, draperies and her daughter’s wedding gowns. She did ceramics and other arts and crafts, and was an accomplished quilter and embroiderer.
Friends will be received on Friday, December 22, 2017 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 558 West Walnut Street, Lancaster, PA from 10-11AM, with the Mass of Christian Burial to follow at 11AM Following Mass, burial will take place at St. Joseph New Catholic Cemetery.