| OBITUARY
Rites for Charles Perrin, educator, set for Tuesday - Retired
principal, 74, died of heart attack
The Dallas Morning News - Monday, May 2, 1994
Graveside services for Charles Womack Perrin, a retired principal in the
Carrollton- Farmers Branch school district, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Oaklawn
Cemetery.
Mr. Perrin died Saturday at R.H. Dedman Memorial Medical Center in Dallas of a
heart attack. He was 74.
The Decatur native earned a bachelor's of education degree and a master's of
history degree from the University of North Texas.
He started teaching in 1941 in Megargel, Texas. In addition to teaching history
, Mr. Perrin coached the six-man football team and directed the school's drama
productions. After stops in the Paradise and Brownwood school districts, Mr.
Perrin returned in the 1950s to Decatur, where he taught history and
bookkeeping.
He then taught in the Carrollton- Farmers Branch school district, where he
became the principal of
Farmers Branch Elementary School, a position he held until his retirement in
the late 1970s.
Survivors include a stepdaughter, Pat Carter of Denton; three sisters, Earline
Buchholz of Sugarland, Belle Shanks of Chico, Texas, and Jo Ann Johnston of
Waxahachie; and a brother, Frank Perrin of Denton.
Donations can be made to the Decatur Public Library or the Wise County
Historical Society.
Dallas Morning News - May 2, 1994
Submitted by Edward Lynn
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