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Note: eets and hand typed a vast library of names, locations, dates, and family stories. The sheer volume of information which he preserved for future generations with a simple, manual typewriter is extraordinary and mind boggling. Lowell served in World War II. Lowell and Frieda had no children. Lowell E Perry wrote the following in October 1978: "Dear Family: While I am well aware that none of you have asked me to attempt to prepare anything like the project which I willingly took on myself, I am at the same time also aware that each of us holds certain circumstances of our own individual lives to be matters of personal nature, and certainly not things which we wished to have broadcast for all to see and judge. Some of these things, I am aware of from personal knowledge, and others I am only familiar with from bits and pieces of conversation among the several member of the family over many years. When I reexamined some of the family stories with one or the other of you, I was surprised that I was told different versions with nuances that I had not previously considered. I have tried therefore to put forth only those things with which I had personal knowledge. I must apologize for my lack of ability at typing and am constantly being told of this or that error that I have committed unwittingly, and repeated it over and over in my attempts of come up with the multiple copies that were needed for each of the several branches of the family. Since I normally type off the top of my head, I see that I have tried to state essentially the same things in various ways, unfortunately some of the ways happen to be a little more acceptable to the eye and ear. I have tried desperately to avoid the tendency of so many people in setting down family histories to lop off or prune away from the family tree branches and the surrounding incidents shich to them are distasteful. Of course, in doing the whole of it, I, like several of you, I hope, was caught up in the reasons of just how and why certain things happened, and much to my regret, I am still filled with many more questions than I have answers for. To make matters even worse, each concrete fact that I turn up in answer to one of my numerous questions, I find that a dozen or more new and hitherto unthought of questions appear. My only request is that you read through what I have prepared and note in particular anything which I have misrepresented, and apprise me of the corrections needed to set those errors aright. Since this is not a story of our roots, for in each family represented different roots provided new and different elements to the genetic pool from which each of us drew our initial allotment of the genes to become the individuals apart and separate from each other member. It is rather a recitation of the tree which developed from the union of George R. Perry and Lucy Jane Wilson, hence I am inclined to use a title of "Our Emerging Generations of the Perry/Wilson Clan". I would appreciate hearing from any and all of you as to any obvious errors that my poor typing ability has produced."
Note: Lowell devoted his later years to the family trees of his relatives and friends. He diligently mailed correspondence to long lost relatives around the world, pestered people to fill out family worksh
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